Cases Quote by James L. Buckley

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

— Howard Dean

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally,…

— Anonymous

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

— Noam Chomsky

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George…

— Elayne Boosler

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a…

— T.R. Reid

The decision in Citizens United said that money equals speech, a position that I - and a vast majority of Americans, in poll after…

— Patrick Murphy

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

— Neal Katyal

“Repeatedly courts turned to the First Amendment. The right to speak is fundamental, but is limited or regulated under myriad circumstances. You are not…

— Michael Waldman

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

— Sam Brownback

My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than any other…

— Noam Chomsky

We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech…

— William J. Clinton

I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests a year,…

— Neal Katyal