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Quotes About Overturn

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.
~ Sara Gideon
As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review - and overturn - the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for 'don't ask, don't tell.' But much has changed since 1993. My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay.
~ Alan K. Simpson
Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
~ Ron Fournier
political fear can be "sparked by friction in the civic world" and "may dictate public policy, bring new groups to power and keep others out, create laws and overturn them.
~ Jon Meacham
It was possible, I had realised, to resist evil but in doing so you acted alone. You stood or fell as an individual. You risked everything in the attempt: it might even be the case, I said, that evil could only be overturned by the absolute sacrifice of self. The problem was that nothing could give greater pleasure to your enemies.
~ Rachel Cusk
I would have to thank my godmother, Dr. Alveda King for exposing the racism behind abortion and fighting hard to not only defund Planned Parenthood but to overturn Roe v. Wade which is responsible for ending nearly 20 million Black lives.
~ Angela Stanton-King
On the matter - on the issue of life, it's life. So I actually would pursue appointment, court appointments that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
~ Evan McMullin
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
~ Dennis Kucinich
My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed, and wealth.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Every good and right decision that we make helps overturn the results of the bad ones.
~ Joyce Meyer
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
~ Aeschylus
Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!
~ Bernie Sanders
One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.
~ Hillary Clinton
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
~ George Herbert
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
~ Elihu Palmer
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
~ Octavio Paz
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.
~ Steven Pinker
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
~ x malcolm vi
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
~ Georges Bataille
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.
~ Michele Bachmann
RBG: I should define the term activism as I used it for that purpose. It is a court that is not at all hesitant to overturn legislation passed by the Congress
~ Jeffrey Rosen
Did you ever read one of her Poems backward, because the plunge from the front overturned you? I sometimes (often have, many times) have - A something overtakes the Mind.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
~ David Blunkett