Newt Gingrich Quotes

I believe in the First Amendment.

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

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

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

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.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

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

After 200 years, the 1st Amendment remains only as strong, or as weak, as the citizens it is designed to protect.

… our respect for First Amendment freedoms is one of the few values that still rises above partisan politics.

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

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

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.

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.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.

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

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

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

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.