106 Quotes by John Conyers

For a long time people were a little bit afraid of Rosa Parks because she had created this whole new modern civil rights movement,

creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.

Even worse than an extra-marital affair is the use of federal prosecutors and federal agents to expose an extra-martial relationship. Yes, there is a threat to society here but it is from the tactics from a 'win-at-all-costs' prosecutor determined to sink a president of the opposition party.

The bill does nothing to target the one percent of gun dealers who are responsible for selling nearly half of the guns traced to crime, ... It does nothing to plug the NRA-sponsored loopholes that, among other things, allows criminals to get out of jail and get their guns back.

The administration's continued defiance of constitutional safeguards seems to have no end in sight, ... This decision decimates the Fourth Amendment.

Sunsets were a step in the right direction, but they don't address the underlying problem. They are not a solution for bad law. We should be fixing the problems of the Patriot Act. Sunsets will be of no relief to those who have their constitutional rights violated in the next four years.

They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

I'm the one that's been driving this thing, man,