God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U. S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper. '
In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.
I consider the government of the U. S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
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.
The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.
This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if they are submitted to a referendum. This constitution will lead to a weak Iraq that is unable to defend itself.
If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me,. . . But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy is going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.
Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.