Political Quotes

“I stand today to urge my colleagues to support efforts to bring forward a balanced budget amendment, one that can be passed out of both Houses of Congress and submitted to the States for ratification. Article V of the Constitution gives us the power to change the Constitution from time to time, to modify our laws, that 224-year-old document that has fostered the development of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. We have done this 27 times. We have done it at times in order to protect and preserve the Nation our ancestors fought so valiantly to create and later again to defend. We have to modify our government, the manner in which we do business, in order to preserve that system, in order to make it strong, in order to ensure that it will continue to be strong for future generations. We made it stronger when, for example, we added the Bill of Rights shortly after the ratification of the Constitution. We made it stronger again when, for example, we added the so-called Civil War amendments, amendments XIII, XIV, and XV, ending slavery and the badges and incidents thereof. We made it stronger when we made clear that women must always be given the right to vote. We have made it stronger a number of times. And the time to make it stronger has come yet again.…”