Ann Coulter Quotes

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.

I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.

When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that. I don't say - I've been careful not to get personal in terms of my criticisms for my comment, but I think the issues are simply too important for the future of the nation for us to operate as though those of us who disagree somehow shouldn't speak out and be heard. I think we need to be heard.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

[There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.

In a true democracy, there has to be a line between deliberative debate and mob rule. Trump has crossed the line, and much of the media has exacerbated the problem by treating his remarks as entertainment, effectively encouraging his competition to do the same.

In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.

The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.

You shouldn't have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.