A Quote by Barack Obama

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
American - President
Born: August 4, 1961

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

Al Franken

The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

Rush Limbaugh

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Bill Vaughan

Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

Rush Limbaugh

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

Thomas Jefferson

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

Ron Paul

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we have achieved what we wanted to achieve, but there are also reasons for concern. Not everything turned out exactly as I would have liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and the principles contained therein and in our bill of rights.

Frederik Willem de Klerk

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Barbara Boxer

If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?

Jon Stewart

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

A. V. Dicey

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

John Thune

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail.

Walter E. Williams

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

Dick Cheney

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.

Ron Paul

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.