Ted Lieu Quotes

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That's what makes us American.

That's the greatest thing about America, freedom that we have.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Today I am here to defend the right to offend within the bounds of the law.

A country where every man, be he fool or wise, is free to speak that which is in him, can never suffer a revolution.

And we have got to fight [communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

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

I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.

America is worth fighting for ideologically.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

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.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

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