Top 28 Quotes About 14th Amendment
#1. I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.
Annalee Newitz
#2. The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.
Tony Kushner
#3. The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
Noam Chomsky
#4. When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
Antonin Scalia
#5. Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
Mark McKinnon
#6. No one will die if they don't know how old I am.
Ken Stott
#7. Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.
David Letterman
#8. You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.
Danny Brown
#9. Our fellow-citizens, as they now realized, had never thought that our little town might be a place particularly chosen as one where rats die in the sun and concierges perish from peculiar illnesses.
Albert Camus
#10. When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
Arlen Specter
#11. I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.
Rick Scott
#12. I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.
Luke Mitchell
#13. Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
Laurence Tribe
#14. She's not trying to get herself killed", Ry replied. "She's on a mission. I admire that. And the fact she thinks you're a pain in the ass she doesn't want around? She's a smart woman, seems to me."
-Ryland Samuels
Stephanie Rowe
#15. The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.
Ted Cruz
#16. Wyatt pushed out a rough breath. "You're going to make this no-sex thing impossible, aren't you?"
She grinned and snagged another bite for herself. "Not any more than you're going to make it for me.
Katie Reus
#17. I grew up on the beach, so I'm really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.
Gigi Hadid
#18. History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
Michael K. Simpson
#19. If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.
Ilana Mercer
#20. On everyone's lap rested a book. Any book. In case the wedding got boring.
Cynthia Hand
#21. The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
Michael Kinsley
#22. Question is are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?
Eminem
#23. I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way. Happiness only happens for those who cry and those who hurt, for only then can they appreciate the importance of people who touch their lives.
Douglas Clegg
#25. 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.
Henry Rollins
#26. Digital has the hybrid nature; it's about mixing something old and new, the best practices and the next practices.
Pearl Zhu
#27. If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
George Will
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