Access Quote by George Will

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are…

— Pierre Omidyar

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what you feel…

— Jenny The Jawbreaker

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

— Ferdinand Mount

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

— Jill Stein

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does…

— Pete Wilson

The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones…

— Rod Lurie

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment…

— Nat Hentoff

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

— L. Neil Smith

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon…

— William Blackstone

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

— Anthony Kennedy