First Amendment Quotes

The First Amendment is a wonderful things, but you have to be careful with it in this environment.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

It was a good day for the First Amendment and free expression.

If you're expressing a political view, and doing it in a peaceful way, obviously the First Amendment is supposed to protect that.

I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.

I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because that's really the fundamental thing: free speech, the ability to protest, legitimate dissent in a democracy.

There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.

We are thrilled the jury understood the importance of the First Amendment, ... We believe the material support statute is overbroad, and we are very glad the government's attempt to extend the bad statute has been thwarted.

The First Amendment permits a public university to charge its students an activity fee used to fund a program to facilitate extracurricular student speech if the program is viewpoint neutral.

It's every right under the First Amendment and North Carolina statutes to inform voters how their legislators actually vote in Raleigh.

The Justice Department is disappointed by the court's declaration that the Children's Internet Protection Act violates the First Amendment, and the department is currently reviewing the ruling in connection with an appeal of that ruling.

The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment.

The First Amendment is not an accident. My deeply held conviction, supported with a lot of evidence, is what might do this country in to where we cease to exist as a vital democracy, as a Constitutional democracy, is not terrorism or a weak economy but what will do us in is a secret government.

The First Amendment is not an accident. My deeply held conviction, supported with a lot of evidence, is what might do this country in to where we cease to exist as a vital democracy, as a Constitutional democracy, is not terrorism or a weak economy but what will do us in is a secret government.

Generally speaking, private and religious schools are not subject to the First Amendment.

It would be a tragedy for the First Amendment and for this country if valuable speech about sex were unavailable to adults and minors throughout this country and that would be the effect if this law goes into effect.

The law schools are taking a position on First Amendment grounds, and that position is in interference with military recruiting, no question about it.

The last elections revealed sharp political divisions in the American political landscape, ... Yet many student opinions about the First Amendment and freedom of the press tend to stay remarkably consistent across these otherwise widely accepted political fault lines.

In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take that obligation very seriously.

We are disappointed that politicians of both parties chose to toss overboard the First Amendment and free artistic and creative expression in favor of political expediency.

He is inclined to the view of the First Amendment that the government is not intended to be hostile to religion. It is intended to be accommodating when it can.

Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.

I used the First Amendment to protect sources and to protect some journalists, and I felt very strongly about that, ... It was a serious criminal investigation, and I felt compelled to protect the sources of information and the journalists reporting the information.

I assure you no threats, implied or otherwise, will deter us from exercising those first-amendment rights on this critical issue.

The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power nor the prestige of the Federal Government would be used to control, support or influence the kinds of prayer the American people can say - that the peop.