Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Quotes

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

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.

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

Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions - and that is especially true for universities.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.

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

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

We [Russia] and America both have freedom of speech. The only difference is that Americans have freedom after they speak.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the 1st Amendment.

Liberal democracies exist only where there are free universities.