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"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."
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"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
"Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights."
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846."
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
"As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate."
"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."
"The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled."
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"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress."
"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."
"There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren."
"I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001."
"Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation."
"We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century."
"We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal."
"Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him."
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