Quotes About The Commerce Clause

#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. 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

#6. Environmental history ... refer[s] to the past contact of man with his total habitat ... The environmental historian like the ecologist [s]hould think in terms of wholes, of communities, of interrelationships, and of balances.

Roderick Nash

#7. You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!

Amanda Hocking

#8. Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

Antonio De Oliveira Salazar

#9. I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.

John Tesh

#10. Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Donna Tartt

#11. Who is saying it is more important that what she or he is saying.

Ben Tolosa

#12. 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

#13. None of us are normal.

Erica Chilson

#14. What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Franz Marc