Tipper Gore Quotes

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and the needs of large media corporations to make profits. Any time we chip away at the First Amendment, we should at least do it with some reverence.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

Freedom of speech is freedom to offend.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists, law firms, and investors exercise their rights to it alongside your own.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

I am not against freedom of speech, and I recognise the value of fair publication.

The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.