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Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to coast, until I guess we amend the Constitution.


Antonin Scalia

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CHARLES KURALT You can fly right now from the East Coast to London for as low as $289 round-trip. (Right now) it's ...
BOB DIENER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast ...
CHARLES KURALT Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Insecurity off the Somali coast has escalated sharply. It is very worrying.
ANDREW MWANGURA The front is in our area and will move slowly through until it's off the coast at 1 a.m. We could se...
FRANK BILLINGSLEY It really comes down to can you count to five, and frankly, I can only count to two?[Antonin] Scalia...
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MARK WAGGONER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We have to make our evacuation decision when a storm is off the coast of North Carolina.
MARIANA LECKNER Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th...
WENDY LONG To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN We certainly fear that it could weaken Florida's ability to stop drilling off the coast.
BRYAN GULLEY Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA If the bill is passed, I will start and lead efforts to amend the law because it violates our Consti...
GUS DUR The pope has been to the East Coast, to the West Coast, down South to New Orleans and in Chicago, an...
JUSTIN RIGALI We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is no...
ALPHA OUMAR KONARE Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to H...
BOBBY JINDAL For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, We...
BIG SEAN The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. T...
RUSH LIMBAUGH The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to C...
ERIC LEFKOFSKY Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
RAYMOND SOKOLOV Much of our strategic shift is providing production advances over the next 60 days in the Gulf Coast...
DAN O. DINGES I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We...
SAM SIMON The Coast Guard is the one who sets the height of the bridge. The Coast Guard's decision is very imp...
WAYNE BROWN Obviously, we swung the bats well. I was worried, because it was the first game back off a West Coas...
JIM LEYLAND Areas in the Midwest get most of their fuel from terminals in the Gulf, ... They (now) have to eithe...
DON BOWERS [Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
ANTHONY KENNEDY In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation ...
BRAD THOR The biggest thing that seems to be out right now is the refinery capacity down there (the Gulf Coast...
GREG STRINGHAM The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport...
DAVE EDWARDS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The industry keeps saying that this is a West Coast phenomenon, ... I don't think we know it's just ...
MARY ARONSON The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslave...
LORETTA NAPOLEONI Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold t...
RICHARD SHELBY Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
KEN KESEY The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleag...
BYRON DORGAN Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.
BOBBY JINDAL It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina ...
JOSH LUCAS Wisconsin is coming off a two-loss West Coast trip. We have to match the intensity they bring becaus...
IAN CLERIHEW We could see that was going to happen about the time Katrina came off the west coast of Florida,
KERRY EMANUEL We have widespread damage on the west coast, on the east coast, in the center of the state and in th...
MIKE DELORENZO I think the Research Coast is more prominent this year.
DON ROOT I'd say in the past week things have felt like they're getting back to normal. We don't have street ...
JOEY KERN In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.&...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN My guess is that the farther you get away from the East Coast, the less the impact Sept. 11 has had ...
KEVIN NEELY We think it's a terrific opportunity to take our West Coast production and put it into a single faci...
BOB EATON But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games ...
MARCUS ALLEN But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody do...
BUBBA SPARXXX The process required to amend a country's constitution is like the process required to convert dream...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's devastating. The Gulf Coast is gone.
BRETT FAVRE This development is going to happen on the coast. We just need to steer it in the right places.
CAROLYN BOLTIN There's so many folks coming off I-5 and the coast that would enjoy this type of area,
DOUG ROBINSON We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We...
BOB GAUDIO I think that the market will remain robust and I think that we are going to continue to see a lot of...
JENNIFER PIERSON But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody do...
BUBBA SPARXXX The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleag...
BYRON DORGAN How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every...
ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE The real problem from a consumer perspective is a shortage of refined product, and it is unclear to ...
JAMES LUCIER We're coming off our winter training which we did here in Atlanta. We only have one month until the ...
STUART WILSON Most of our best indicators suggest that it will move back to the west and approach the southeast Un...
JAMIE RHOME I guess in their rush to the Gulf Coast to secure reconstruction contracts, they forgot about the tr...
CAROLYN MALONEY Even anti-choice Justices Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist respect precedent, but that hasn't st...
NANCY KEENAN Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
PAUL WALKER My best guess is that one of the things that is going to come out of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast di...
JACK RILEY Ensuring that everyone has great trails to ride is an essential part of our business. By honoring th...
MARKETING MANAGER It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president...
JAN LARUE Living and working on the Gulf Coast, we know what a challenge it is to rebuild, and we wanted an op...
BOBBY TAYLOR To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The best solution for the current political crisis is to amend the constitution to pave the way for ...
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and sho...
ELLEN GILCHRIST [However,] No one was injured, no one was killed, thank God, ... We are prepared from coast to coast...
ENRIQUE BOLANOS They simply made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. We now have the largest trust practice on the W...
BRUCE ROSS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.
BOB WATTS This is happening all along the coast, ... Just like the debris, we are everywhere.
GEORGE BASS The problem with national gardening magazines and TV shows is that they're based on the East Coast, ...
ALAN STEVENS When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Compared to Ivory Coast, Europe is still paradise.
ALEXANDRE GALLEY The consequence of that could be very, very dangerous for those living off the coast.
BOB LAY There is a lot of uncertainty on the Coast.
BEVERLY BRAHAN Right now it's a squeeze play for oil industry, ... But if they can get by from here to February, I ...
FADEL GHEIT I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
IAN SOMERHALDER take away millions of dollars from the Coast when the Coast needs that money most.
ERIC CLARK I don't think anyone in the Gulf Coast is out of harm's way.
DAVID PAULISON Her work is usually seen on the West Coast and the East Coast and not in the middle. In the middle w...
ED STERN On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfo...
AL SECKEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblit...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. ...
WALTER WINCHELL After the first Drop, things have just been great for the bands involved. Just an example is Dynamic...
CARY KANNO The Coast Guard's performance in the terrible devastation that occurred illustrates not only the com...
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