speech Quotes

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

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

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.