Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Florida for those timeless thoughts. Something that our Founding Fathers discovered was a concept that was relatively new to society at the time, and that is the concept of God-given liberty and God-given rights, natural rights, natural rights that did emerge with Locke, for example, in the United Kingdom, but they hadn't been implanted into culture and civilization until they were implanted in America. Here we are in this country, everyone that serves in this Chamber takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, as do all the Senators on the other end of this Capitol Building, as does everyone who puts on a uniform to defend our country, and many of them who serve within our executive branch as well. The President is a bit of an exception because he is required to deliver an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and he is required to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. {time} 1830 And what he has done, instead, is turn himself into an independent legislative body. He has said 22 times: I don't have the constitutional authority--and I am going to summarize here--to grant amnesty to millions of people in America. That is up to the legislature. He taught the Constitution at the University of Chicago for 10 years as an adjunct professor teaching Con law.…”