America Quote by Mike Royko

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

— Christopher Hitchens

Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around…

— Ezra Levant

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be…

— Kat Timpf

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and…

— Salman Rushdie

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and…

— Potter Stewart

Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on…

— Stephen Colbert

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

In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should be against…

— Lionel Shriver

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free…

— David Harsanyi

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They…

— Lee Mack

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw