Jared Polis Quotes

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

In America we don’t apologize for opinions, that’s why we have a 1st Amendment. If we can’t discuss even controversial opinions in the pages of our newspapers, where are we going to do it?

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

Freedom of expression is guaranteed within the framework of Islamic and national objectives and values.

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

There is no functional difference between censorship and the threat of censorship.

When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule--and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech