Constitution Quotes - Page 15

• I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  Men, Term, Barack

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

  Edward Snowden

  Direct Action, Democracy, Representatives

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Dangerous, Knows

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Jobs, Golf, Government

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

  Newt Gingrich

  Giving, President, Use

  "Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitoring". kuow.org. December 22, 2016.

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• We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

  Nat Hentoff

  Trying, President, Needs

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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• [I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Games

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• If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds, that all of that money is not out of the Trump organization by Friday [20 Jan.2017], when he takes the oath, he will be in violation of "The Constitution."

  Reince Priebus

  Friday, Government, Organization

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What I know is it is a disservice to those who continue to serve to think that there's going to be a civil-military breakdown because those who serve, they know who they serve. They know what their loyalties are, that's why you take an oath to the Constitution and your loyalty lies in the chain of command and your buddies. That's always been there. We are a professional military.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Loyalty, Lying, Military

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't even been sworn in yet. So, all this flailing about how he's done everything wrong it's a little premature at best.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Law, President, Done

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.

  Angela Merkel

  Eight, Years, America

  Source: time.com

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• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  Quentin Crisp

  Would Be, England, Pursue

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

  Nat Hentoff

  Law, Chicago, Irony

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but he has done more harm to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights than any president since John Adams.

  Nat Hentoff

  Rights, President, Sound

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties of the United States are part of the supreme law of the land along with the constitution itself and laws passed by Congress. Well, the US government certainly has not been acting in recent years as if treaties were part of the supreme law of the land.

  John Burroughs

  Commitment, Law, Land

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• I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.

  Nat Hentoff

  Atheist, Passion, Expression

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Letters, Ambassadors

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Instead of investigating the fact that the president-elect [Donald trump] is going to be violating "The Constitution" with these flows of foreign fighters, they admit they have a problem. They say, oh, well, we won't - his lawyers said well, we want take the profits in the hotels.

  Norman L. Eisen

  President, Want, Flow

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Believe, White, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Serious, Germany

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Nsa, Class

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

  Edward Snowden

  Violation

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Law, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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