Framers Quotes

Women need to have a voice in government to be able to achieve the perfect union that the framers had talked about. If you don't have something, you're more likely to fight for it. If you have it, you take it for granted. - Iris Nelson

Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally or opponent, or William Clinton the father and the husband, ask only this: should William Clinton the president be removed from office? ... Are we at that horrific moment in our history when our union can be preserved only by taking the step that the framers saw as a last resort? - Charles Ruff

Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough. - Eliot Spitzer

The Framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government, to sit down and say, 'Let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.' - John Roberts

The framers specifically created an amendment process that was difficult, but not impossible. They didn't want to make that change easily. - Steve Frank

The framers sitting in Philadelphia looked at the egregious powers the state would have to violate the privacy and looked at also the need to give the police the ability to protect citizens against crimes. - Louis Freeh