Amendment Quotes

[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

That's in the First Amendment?

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

People that believe in the Second Amendment and believe in it very strongly were very upset with what Hillary Clinton had to say.

We are going to save our Second Amendment.

When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Im 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe its not just a hunting right. Its a right for everyone to carry their weapons.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.