Political Quotes

“I am looking at our job and our destiny here, and I think that our constitutional obligation is to restore the pillars of American exceptionalism. You can identify many of them in the Constitution itself. In the Bill of Rights it is pretty well summarized: freedom of speech, religion, the press, the freedom to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. The Second Amendment rights, which are the property rights that the gentleman mentioned, I would point out that, in the Kelo decision, which happened about 10 years, the Supreme Court ruled that they could amend the Constitution itself. Well, they didn't say they did, but that was the effect of their decision. ``Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation'' is part of the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that private property could be taken for private use as long as there was just compensation. So they struck the three words ``for public use'' as a conditional clause out of the Fifth Amendment. We had a Supreme Court that amended the Constitution, effectively. We have a Supreme Court last June that amended ObamaCare by writing words into it; ``or Federal Government'' would be the three words inserted there.…”