#amendment

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#citizen #ecosystem #first #first amendment #life

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#amendment #association #countries #first #first amendment

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— John Dingell

#amendment rights #catch #change #citizens #criminals

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. ↗

— Earl Warren

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ↗

— E. B. White

#assume #cat #editorial #first #first amendment

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery. ↗

— Robin Williams

#arms #artillery #bear #right #says

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican. ↗

— Heather Wilson

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I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe. ↗

— Eric Holder

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