Political Quotes

“Unlike the 1st and 14th amendment, when one imagines the 1st and 14th amendments saying thou shall not abridge speech except to a de minimis amount or everyone has equal protection under the law except to a de minimis amount, one would never find that language in the Constitution of the United States because that is not the way constitutions are written, and thank goodness this one will never be part of it. I mean, the fact of the matter is, as litigious as a society as we have, can anyone recall any time in history that there was a budget resolution that was challenged on constitutional grounds around here? I do not think I have ever seen that. Has there ever been an opportunity where an increase in taxes was challenged on constitutional grounds? Frankly put, we are going to have, any time we have any change to the IRS budget, for example, if we have an increase in the number of people that the IRS puts on in their ability to enforce the different laws even, if it might increase the amount of tax collection, we are going to have a lawsuit. This notion that we are somehow are not going to have constitutional conflicts, that we do not have constitutional conflicts in the 1st and 14th amendment, so therefore we should not have done it is absurd.”