Amendments Quotes

Writing Amendments to integrity leaves a wide margin for error. - Donna J. Zuk

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

What's important to note here is that a lot of these amendments that have passed around the country the last few years, that they were sold to the public as strictly defining marriage. But many of the amendments don't do just that -- there are far-reaching affects. - Brad Luna

What we need is just a clear understanding on all sides that we are not going to offer amendments, we are not going to be one-upping each other here... There are a lot of ways, rhetorically or legislatively that we might get into some sort of bidding war on statements that I think could be counterproductive. What we want is a simple opportunity for us to again reassert our strong support and our friendship with Israel. - Tom Daschle

We're willing to work through these amendments. If they want to have these votes, we'll have the votes. - Nevada Democrat

We're not going in there deliberately looking for ways to unravel the minority Parliament. We're going in there to be constructive and we'll support the legislation that we support and will seek amendments on others and so on. But in terms of confidence issues that come up, I suppose it depends what it is. Jack made it very clear that if they do reintroduce corporate tax cuts, we will not be supporting that. We have never supported that. We'll obviously see what else develops. - Libby Davies

We're going to have some amendments... I think that if we increase the hard money limits, that we would do better with regard to the soft money and the independent ads situation. If people had their choice, I think they'd give it the old-fashioned way. - Fred Thompson

We're almost there. We're not there. We still have some obstacles. The leader and I have spoken about them the last few hours. There's other pieces of legislation that may interfere. We have some amendments we have to vote on that are going to be hurtful to some people and not to others. - Harry Reid