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I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional. -- Fred Korematsu
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. -- Sharron Angle
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. -- Charley Reese
I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. -- Michele Bachmann
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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. -- Hugo Black
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional. -- Gail Collins
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. -- Ted Olson
Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional. -- Justin Amash
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. -- Michael Badnarik
The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral. -- Russell Pearce
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. -- Michael Kinsley
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property. -- Michael Badnarik
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts. -- Karen DeCrow
To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods. -- Frank B. Kellogg
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated. -- William Rehnquist
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional. -- Bob Beauprez
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. -- Stockwell Day
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer - established by the Congress - to be unconstitutional. -- James Dobson
Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power. -- Cliff Sloan
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. -- George Will
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them. -- Bradley A. Smith
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction. -- Bob McDonnell
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional. -- John Cornyn
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills. -- Sharron Angle
Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional. -- Joseph Sobran
The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional. -- Sam Ervin
I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front. -- Mitt Romney
Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional. -- Rush Limbaugh
Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional. -- Mike Pence
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. -- William O. Douglas
The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional. -- Mike Pence
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. -- Mark Steyn
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others. -- David Brooks
Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men. -- Lester Holt
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? -- Antonin Scalia
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars. -- Ron Paul
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'Ã©tats, the removal of legitimate power. -- Vladimir Putin
The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional. -- Mary Matalin
I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable. -- Hillary Clinton
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. -- Abraham Lincoln
NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation. -- Sergei Lavrov
Whether you're gay, straight, you can't tell anybody who to love and who to marry. It's unconstitutional and it's morally wrong. -- Andrew Dice Clay
Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do. -- Hillary Clinton
Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented. -- Vladimir Putin
Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute -- Ron George
The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level. -- Sharron Angle
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional. -- Ted Olson
Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point. -- Ann Coulter
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. -- Earl Warren
[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional. -- Edward Snowden
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government. -- Daniel Webster
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional. -- Arlen Specter
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house. -- Michael Kinsley
It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional. -- Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama. -- Ted Cruz
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional. -- Samuel Adams
Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.' -- Jimmy Fallon
Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable. -- Vladimir Putin
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