Jerry Falwell Quotes

I think that Roe v. Wade will ultimately be overturned. I think it'll fall of its own weight. It does not have any constitutional underpinnings.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

My view is that Roe v. Wade had no basis in law or fact.

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.

But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the law and the constitution. And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade and therefore they return to the people and their elected representatives the decisions with regards to this important issue.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

In the fifteen years since Earl Warren became Chief Justice, the Court has brought about more social change than most Congresses and most presidents.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a perversion of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

I will never forget January 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped up the Constitution.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.

History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.