Lee C. Bollinger Quotes

It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article's assurance.

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

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

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

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

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

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

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

There is no security in the profered system, either for the rights of conscience or the liberty of the Press.

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.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

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

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

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.

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

I believe in the First Amendment.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

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.