Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

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

Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it's problematic.

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Liberty must live or perish together.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

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.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

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.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

I believe that the defendants had as much right to publish as the Government has to publish the Constitution.

The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

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

The 1st Amendment does not mandate that the press be accurate.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

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

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 in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free..

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. ... And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.

… our respect for First Amendment freedoms is one of the few values that still rises above partisan politics.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.