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Quotes About Uphold

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
~ Hillary Clinton
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.
~ Glenn Beck
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
He said that fate might enter into the affairs of men in order to contravene them or set them at naught but to say that fate could deny the true and uphold the false would seem to be a contradictory view of things. To speak of a will in the world that ran counter to one's own was one thing. To speak of such a will that ran counter to the truth was quite another, for then all was rendered senseless.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Constitutional rights do not always have easily ascertainable boundaries, and controversy over the meaning of our Nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. As judges, however, we are sworn to uphold the law even when its content gives rise to bitter dispute.
~ HARRY BLACKMUN
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe. Ranger
~ Janet Evanovich
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
~ Anne Frank
United States naturalization is a privilege not a right, and those who have had this privilege bestowed upon them must respect and uphold the laws of our land.
~ Lee Zeldin
There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
~ Abby Wambach
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
~ William Hague
Joe Biden took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. If he wants to keep it, he must transmit the job-killing Paris Agreement to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
~ Lauren Boebert
I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.
~ Dan Crenshaw
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
~ Andrew Johnson
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
~ Barbara Jordan
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
~ Jay Weatherill
Kerala has always evoked the curiosity of the world at large. We have contributed immensely in enriching such ideals which an egalitarian world would cherish to uphold.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
President Obama has not only failed to uphold several of our nation's laws, he has vowed to continue to do so in order to enact his unpopular agenda.
~ Ron DeSantis
The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. That mission is both dual and simultaneous - it is not contradictory.
~ Christopher A. Wray
We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.
~ Matt Gaetz
When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.
~ Ethan Hawke
When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.
~ Paul Broun
I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.
~ Paul Watson
As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.
~ Jan Brewer
We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
~ Mike Pence