The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a 'guardian of liberty,' protecting our privacy and the First Amendment… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Out of two different and distinct traditions, Jennifer and Zachary have come together to learn the best of what each has to… — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's… — Laura Sydell Copy Share Image
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech? — Rob Kampia Copy Share Image
When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet. — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment.… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image