Famous Quotes & Sayings

For private employers, there is normally no special First Amendment right to get out of work to engage in a protest. A company might decide that it's good for morale to accommodate the exercise of freedom of speech on an issue that is very important to people, but that's an employment judgment not law.

Richard Land

If he doesn't change his mind and support this amendment he will have a virtually impossible task to win the Republican nomination.

I felt we could have gone a little further. We'll just have to make amends in the years to come.

I do think a constitutional amendment is needed.

Mathew Staver

I don't see that the city would have any compelling reason to prohibit her from displaying small flags in her windows. It's a violation of her First Amendment rights,

Mitt Romney

I am pleased that the compromise amendment before the Constitutional Convention was defeated. Now, we can work to put on the ballot a simpler amendment that simply defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

Jim Jeffords

I am not precluding the hope and belief that when the president fully understands what this means and what my amendment would mean, that we will hopefully have a change in attitude and that my goal is the same as John Breaux's. I would like to see us vote out a budget by 90 votes ... not just hanging on by a vote or two.

I feel like an 8-year old kid who just got a bike on Christmas morning. It was a huge sigh of relief to get this win tonight. We told our kids that we had some frustrating losses this season and we could make amends in this tournament. We did a great job of holding off Pisgah's spurts because they can score in a hurry, and we didn't give up when they fought back at us at the end.

I don't think the First Amendment trumps everything.

Tom Price

I don't particularly like the idea of slaughtering horses; however, this amendment cuts funding for USDA inspectors and, as a result, would endanger consumer safety,

Larry Flynt

I believe in the First Amendment (freedom of speech) very strongly ... and there's no reason to quit now, ... All the support has been extremely amazing.

Our goal was to come back and make amends (of his team's 42-21 loss to Naperville North in Week 2). We stepped it up (against Mundelein) and took a major step forward.

Our goal was basically to make sure the voters clearly knew what the amendment would mean and what it would do.

Our first amendment rights are irreparably harmed, every day the gag continues,

Andrew Cohen

The police can't do anything to compel this family to talk, they can't do anything legally. The family, anyone, has a Fifth Amendment right not to talk to police and I imagine these folks are going to exercise that right and they have every right to do so.

Naomi Wolf

The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

Ernest Istook

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

Lionel Barber

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.

Henry Rollins

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

Hank Johnson

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 our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

Bobby Jindal

I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage.

Louie Gohmert

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

The proposed amendment will send a clear message that the criminal exploitation of Maine's homeless citizens will not be tolerated.

The proponents of the ... amendment clearly continue to try, in every way possible, to conceal from the voters the real impact and potential far reaching consequences of the proposed amendment.

The PROMISE Bill had an amendment that could be very important to the classified staff as well as faculty in higher education.

We have the best police officers and firefighters in the world, and the mayor has no problem with them peacefully exercising their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.

We do endorse and fully support First Amendment rights, but walking out of school during school hours is not appropriate. They can protest, but they have to find appropriate venues to do so, not leaving class or disrupting the school day.

Roxane Gay

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Rand Paul

Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

Rand Paul

The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

The decision today says the First Amendment protects you to protest peacefully. So -- go do it!

The debate in the party was, should we participate in these elections and therefore legitimize a piecemeal amendment to this crucial document?