Rex E. Lee Quotes

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

The Solicitor General is responsible neither to the man who appointed him [the President] nor to his immediate superior [the Attorney General.] The Solicitor General has no master to serve except his country.

David Addington does not believe in the Constitution

It has been the judiciary that has preserved the Constitution rather than the other two separated powers.

I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president's lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.

Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.'

The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.

For those of us on the front lines fighting Washington's power grabs, Judge Gorsuch's commitment to interpreting the Constitution and the laws as they are actually written is welcome news.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.