Jake Tapper Quotes

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

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?

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

It's not my place to say if performers of quenelle should be punished.

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

I never really expected "Hurricane" to be censored and banned around the world, but I think the good thing that came from it was that it created a dialogue, a conversation, a debate and a discussion. And that's a great thing. It brought all of us together in a unique way. And it made us look a little deeper in ourselves. I think it's a good thing.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

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

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Anyone who believes in tolerance and freedom will support Denmark and publish all 12 cartoons.