First amendment Quote by Jim Acosta

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

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 press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he…

— Dee Dee Myers

“America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents who fuck the Constitution up the ass.” He…

— Ken Follett

Is it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And…

— Gene Weingarten

I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

— Peter Pace

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

— Ben Shapiro

If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or…

— Richard S. Salant

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

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

— Hasan Minhaj

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

— Jeff Bewkes

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press as possible.

— Kat Timpf