Shinzo Abe Quotes

Constitutional reform is exasperatingly slow.

The path to an amendment to the Constitution is a thorny one.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

I deny that the power of amendment [of the Constitution] carries the power of revolution.

I’m incredibly reluctant to amend the Constitution for any purpose.

The Constitution will be reformed in accordance with our revolution.

Is there a man who will say that the Constitution wants no reform? Will any man be found to say that the Constitution is perfect?

There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

One way for Constitutional change is the fact that [Supreme Court] justices are mortal.

I get nervous every time we start tinkering with the Constitution.

Our fundamental instrument of government [the Constitution] is an evolving document.

If there be any real support among the people for such a constitutional amendment, it is so small that not even one person has been able to get himself a job as a lobbyist to come before the Congress and try to have it pass the joint resolution.

Frequent appeals to the people [to amend the Constitution] would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on everything.

It is my sincere opinion that the Constitution ought to be revised, and that the first Congress meeting under it, ought to prepare and recommend to the States for ratification, the most satisfactory provisions for all essential rights …

It is a further boast that a regular mode of making proper alterations has been providently inserted into the Constitution itself.

[There] is an easy and peaceable way of amending any parts of the Constitution which may be found inconvenient in practice.