Rod Lurie Quotes

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.

Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights.

I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

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.

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.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

We had a responsibility to represent all people whose 1st Amendment rights were at risk

The 1st Amendment is about how we govern ourselves—not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Implicit in the history of the 1st Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

We don't have the right under the 1st Amendment to act as the national program director.

The Constitution does not allow the unnecessary trammeling of free expression, even for the noblest of purposes.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

After 200 years, the 1st Amendment remains only as strong, or as weak, as the citizens it is designed to protect.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

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.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

I believe in the First Amendment.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.