Hank Johnson Quotes

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

I don’t care how many ways you try and explain it. Corporations are not people. People are people.

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

Freedom of speech is as good as sex.

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

It is very dangerous for a government, judge or jury to determine what is deceptive advertising in a political context…. We pay a price for freedom of speech, and that price includes falsehoods that can be repeated thousands of time.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

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.

In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.

I am a firm supporter of the First Amendment, no matter the views expressed.

I don't believe corporations are people.

This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.

Corporations aren’t people. People are people.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.