Amendments Quotes - Page 15

• I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Second Amendment

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

  Steve Clevenger

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Struggle, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Broken, Important

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

  Julian Assange

  Battle, Trying, World

  Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2016.

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• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Hate, Party

  "Communist Party v. SACB, 367 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 5, 1961.

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• This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.

  Butch Otter

  Father, Hands, Law

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

  Donald Trump

  Second Amendment, Want, Clinton

  "CBS on Fact Checking Hillary: People Just Remember 'the Big Ones'" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. August 12, 2016.

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• There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Safety

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Religious, Jobs

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.

  Ted Cruz

  Doe, Matter, Firsts

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Labor Force, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Firsts

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• One of the things I'm gonna do and I have tremendous support with the evangelicals and with the Christians and with everybody, is we're going to get rid of the Johnson Amendment that is very, very unfair.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, Support, Unfair

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.

  Donald Trump

  Administration, Ministers, Process

  Source: time.com

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• In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really was the first time - and I started studying .And we had a meeting a month later and I said, "We're gonna get rid of the Johnson Amendment because they're stopping you and our great people from talking."

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s passed an amendment because supposedly he was having a hard time with a church in Houston, with a pastor. And he passed an amendment saying basically if you're a pastor, if you're a religious person, you cannot get up and talk politics.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Hard Times, Church

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but I don't believe in America, a first amendment nation, where we don't raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship they please, that the doctrines of any religion should be mandated for everyone.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, Teaching, Practice

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

  Tim Kaine

  Strong, Gun, Second Amendment

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  People, Second Amendment, Watches

  "Donald Trump's debate transcript: analyzing his claims issue by issue" by Lois Beckett, Jon Swaine, Spencer Ackerman, Oliver Milman, Molly Redden, David Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When you have your staff taking the Fifth Amendment, taking the Fifth so they're not prosecuted, when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the Fifth, I think it's disgraceful. And believe me, this country thinks it's - really thinks it's disgraceful, also.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Here’s Why Hillary Clinton Emails Didn’t Get Much Attention Last Night" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rights, Equal Pay, Stories

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No matter who you appoint to the court, you're not taking my guns," is all it means, pure and simple. If everybody could just take a breath here and let's get back to who's really doing damage to our country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Mean, Gun

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

  Alex Kozinski

  Views, People, Office

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Google guys haven't even found a way to put abortion in the Constitution yet. Give 'em time. Give the Google guys time and abortion will show up in a keyword search of the Constitution. It's not there yet. Second Amendment is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, Abortion, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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