Amendments Quote by Robert Reich

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

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend…

— Hank Johnson

Money is property; it is not speech.

— John Paul Stevens

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

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the…

— Warren Rudman

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

— John McCain

Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one…

— Benjamin Franklin

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to…

— Andrew Jackson

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it…

— Bernie Sanders

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from…

— Pat Oliphant

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

— Christine Pelosi