Quotes on the topic: Amendment


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The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.


The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' That means not by the president, not by Congress.


The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.


Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.


The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?


The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.


There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United States of America, and I support and believe in the Second Amendment.


The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received.


Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.


The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.


The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.


I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.


It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.


Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.


As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.


When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.


There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.


Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.


The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.


We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.