Takings Quotes

I didn`t have the patience to be a drug dealer...I`d just wait till the end of the day and rob the dealer of his day`s takings.

It wouldn`t be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives` recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn`t about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose."

The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.