Barack Obama Quotes

The only way to amend the Constitution … is by the method provided in the Constitution.

The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

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

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

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.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

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

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

The Constitution is a total living document that can change quite a bit.

Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.

even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

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

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.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

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.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

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

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

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.

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

Our constitution is a conservative document. It's a document which is established to maintain the status quo unless a an overwhelming majority to change that status quo can be martialed.

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

[Describing the Constitution:] ... the very finest document ever to come from the mind of men.

It would be a novel and dangerous doctrine that a legislature could change the constitution under which it held its existence.

It is wrong to say that the Constitution will change with the times. It will be, illuminated by the times.