Trey Gowdy Quotes

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

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

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

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.

The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…. The right to protest should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protested.

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

I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just that I never envisioned it taking the form of thousands of people screaming 'you asshole!' at me.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

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

The right to dissent is one of the great and cherished freedoms that we enjoy by reason of the excellent accident of our American births.

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.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

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.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

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

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.