Quotes About Rights

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

The rights that people have offline must also be protected online.

The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

I think that a woman's right to choose should be protected. I think it should be protected from physical conduct that prevents that right to choose from being freely exercised.

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that in the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security, as well as the TSA, is a great culprit in being a Gestapo-type organization.

Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

As long as I am president, the rights of women will be protected.

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

Women have to be protected more.

See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.

In both houses of Congress, bipartisan legislation has been introduced to ensure that the rights of states and cities to make drone laws are protected.

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?