Robert J. Bentley Quotes

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.

Every member of the Senate has a constitutional duty to follow the Constitution and to uphold the Constitution.

Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.

When I was sworn into office, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and I take that responsibility very seriously.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.

I consider ... the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.

The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

I believe the attorney general or the deputy attorney general has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.

Trump took a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. After his years in the job, he ought to know something about that document.

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.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.

When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.