First amendment Quote by Jane Mayer

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the…

— John Bonifaz

“You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this…

— Steven Magee

“It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very first amendment.…

— Jonathan Karl

“This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.”

— Bentley Little

“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American people while…

— Kenneth Eade

“I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to…

— Steven Magee

“the First Amendment exists to protect controversial speech, not speech we love that ruffles no feathers.”

— Megyn Kelly

“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of…

— Thomas Emerson

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

— Hank Johnson

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

— David Ignatius

“... free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.”

— Salman Rushdie

“The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.”

— Philip Sharp