Freedom of Speech Quotes
“Seven years ago, five justices overturned two centuries of jurisprudence to determine that private business corporations enjoy the political free speech rights of the people. Today after hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money have been spent by CEOs in the name of their unwitting shareholders and billionaires act as our new political bosses and cabinet secretaries, we can see what plutocracy looks like” — Jamie Raskin
“Free speech isn’t free if only the wealthy can afford it” — Ted Deutch
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“Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony’s, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full” — Elayne Boosler
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“We have a right — everyone has a right — to speech in this country. And as we all know, any kind of speech costs money in this country” — Carly Fiorina
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“If money is speech, then speech is no longer free — it’s expensive. It’s high time we overturn Citizens United” — Derek Cressman
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“Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions. In a democracy, we should have the right to elect people based on their ideas” — Bernie Sanders
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“Money is not speech, and therefore regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech” — Move to Amend
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“We are here to fight back against a supreme court that says, ‘there is no difference between free speech and billions of dollars spent by the privileged few to swing elections and buy off legislators’. We are here to fight back against a supreme court that has overturned a century of established law in an effort to block congress from solving this problem” — Elizabeth Warren
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“Call Me Crazy, but I don’t think when the founders envisioned free speech, they meant ‘let corporations spend millions of dollars to buy elections in America’ This is not how our elections should run” — Al Franken
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