Constitutionality Quotes

#1. The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

John Podhoretz

#2. Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thomas Woods

#3. I fully support Attorney General Cuccinelli and his efforts in challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision in the health care legislation, and I look forward to working to repeal and defund the government takeover of health care in the 112th Congress.

Robert Hurt

#4. 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Gary Bauer

#5. The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Felix Frankfurter

#6. The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Everett Dirksen

#7. The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

Jeffrey Chiesa

#8. The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Mariano Rajoy

#9. A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

John C. Calhoun

#10. I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#11. This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

Salvador Allende

#12. If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

Tim Maleeny

#13. She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. No animal admires another animal.

Blaise Pascal

#15. I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

Tom Hiddleston

#16. A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.

M.J. Rose

#17. I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak.

Sid Waddell

#18. One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

Frederick Hart

#19. We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Joseph Sobran

#20. Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Woody Allen

#21. We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

Lester R. Brown

#22. Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

Timothy Griffin

#23. Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Leo Rosten

#24. I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).

Stephen King

#25. Life without a cause will have no effect.

Habeeb Akande