John McCain Quotes

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

You ought not in a free country to lay a tax on the expression of political opinion.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

Freedom of expression is very important.

People have the right to say whatever they want.

Freedom of choice and free speech without fear must be defended.

Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

People have a right to express themselves.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.