Trey Gowdy Quotes

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

In 'The Heritage Guide to the Constitution,' you find a most remarkable collection of scholarly work. Over a hundred people have contributed to explaining what the Constitution says, what it means, how it has been interpreted over the years, and how it is important to people today.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

They [our founding fathers] saw the need from the very outset to improve the product [the Constitution].

A flag burning Constitutional amendment would rip the fabric of the Constitution at its very center.

As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

I think that he was responsible for putting the flesh and bones on the Constitution.

People seem to be concerned about the Constitution of the United States only when it pertains to something that is of concern to them.

Original intent is a necessary fiction that jurists have invented to get a handle on the Constitution.

David Addington does not believe in the Constitution

I'm pretty committed to the Constitution.

What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?