Commerce Clause Quotes

#1. [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

Alex Kozinski

#2. The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

Alex Epstein

#3. The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

John Podhoretz

#4. The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

#5. The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Michael Kinsley

#6. If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

Clarence Thomas

#7. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.

Karen Maitland

#8. Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Stephen Fry

#9. One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

Denis Diderot

#10. Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

Neal Gabler

#11. There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. What can I say, I have a thing for guys in period dress, okay? That's just who I am.

Leila Sales

#13. She was beautiful and had a way of manipulating a man with a terrifying combination of tears and seductive smiles.

Maya Rodale

#14. Time and space cannot play any part between two loving hearts.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#15. It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Anna Kournikova