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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. -- Dennis Kucinich
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. -- Mitt Romney
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. -- Robert Dallek
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them. -- Riz Ahmed
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. -- Michele Bachmann
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. -- James Baker
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. -- Lysander Spooner
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. -- Ian Anderson
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end. -- Herodotus
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. -- Ruth Hubbard
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back. -- Steven Pinker
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns. -- Bernie Sanders
Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective. -- Ron Fournier
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. -- Rick Boucher
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. -- Ben Stein
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. -- Georges Bataille
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. -- David Blunkett
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. -- Rand Paul
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists. -- Greg Graffin
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. -- Samuel Johnson
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world. -- Alexandre Dumas
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. -- Elihu Palmer
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law. -- Gautama Buddha
Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them. -- Riz Ahmed
I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. -- Mitt Romney
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president -- James Baker
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong. -- Rick Santorum
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. -- Dante Alighieri
You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all. -- William Safire
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden. -- Octavio Paz
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country. -- Paul Weyrich
Huge mammals surrounded us, any one of whom could easily overturn our stupid little boat. Tripod would drown. I would drown. Joe would undoubtedly be rescued by mermaids seduced by his beauty. -- Kristan Higgins
On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower. -- Nancy Pelosi

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