Amendment Quote by 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

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

“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

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The…

— Anthony M. Kennedy

“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

“a radical departure from what has been settled First Amendment law.” In a lengthy dissent, he argued that the Constitution’s framers had enshrined the…

— Jane Mayer

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy…

— Sam Farr

“Rather than reporting the violation of basic rights, our media generally preferred to mindlessly indulge the inherently salacious interest we have in other people’s…

— Timothy Snyder

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established…

— Laura Sydell

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press,…

— Dick Durbin

“Freedom of speech as I define it is more than a right granted by government. It's a process that each of us must believe…

— T.J. Kirk

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

— Will Muschamp