Lizz Winstead Quotes

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

The way to preserve the flag's special role is not to punish those who feel differently about these matters. It is to persuade them that they are wrong.... Our decision is a reaffirmation of the principles of freedom and inclusiveness that the flag best reflects, and of the conviction that our toleration of such criticism [flag-burning] is a sign and source of our strength.

People who write letters to the editor are idiots.

America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter — and that we may be wrong at times, even if we are powerful. We must be open to criticism and respect divergent and different views and interests.

The American public is capable of doing its own censoring… If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Everyone champions freedom of expression in the abstract but few can resist calling for censorship when they do not like what is being expressed.

The more internal criticism and dissatisfaction publicly communicable within a society, the better and freer the society.

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the publick.

We all have the right to comment about each other.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

I don't feel I want to complain about anything that's said about me.

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

I have no problem with people challenging my views and my positions. I want to be clear that I'm not asking anybody to stop challenging me. But I will not accept being called an anti-Semite.

Look I can't get into the minds of people who made decisions to support us or support anybody else. But I can tell you that Scott Lively, a lot of what he says and a lot of what he believes doesn't belong in public discourse.

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

judge not that ye be not judged

I don't know why people get so bent out of shape over stuff people say.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.