Jennifer Granholm Quotes

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

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

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…. The right to protest should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protested.

If the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech and press is to mean anything, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

Think about it: If you were publicly branded a racist on an issue of public debate, might you not next time hesitate to speak out, write your elected representatives or go to a meeting? That's a chilling effect - and undermines the First Amendment.

When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

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.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.