Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
Laurent Fabius

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.
Laurent Fabius

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Charles Edison

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
Karen Hughes

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
Samuel Dash

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
Eliot Engel

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Michael Newdow

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.
Lee Greenwood

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
Adrian Cronauer

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
Kay Granger

There is a higher law than the Constitution.
William Seward

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
Kenzaburo Oe

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
Kenzaburo Oe

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Salmon P. Chase

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
Ferdinand Mount

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Michael Newdow

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
Michael Newdow