Alice Merton Quotes

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

We have the right to be idiots.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

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

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.