Bill O'Reilly Quotes

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

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

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

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

A flag burning Constitutional amendment would rip the fabric of the Constitution at its very center.

The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

I believe in the First Amendment.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

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

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.