Higher education has been a critical force in advancing free inquiry in America.

I appreciate actually all of your efforts on behalf of free speech, and I look forward to the day when we won't hate anybody.

The way the Supreme Court upheld it is simply to say that anybody can join, anybody has the right to participate in the democratic dialogue and discussion in elections.

I think that Liberty University, for example, should no more be able to exclude a gay student group than Harvard or Berkeley should be able to exclude an antigay student group.

I want to issue an invitation to you right now to come to American University.

I agree very much with a lot of what I heard.

Justice Stevens has repeatedly argued, money, of course, is not speech, money is property.

The thing that I want us to focus on here is that there is a free market ideology which is animating the Justices on the Court.

The other is the wall we have built brick by brick in statute over a century to separate plutocratic money from democratic politics.

We have built two walls to protect American democracy. The first is Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state, which protects a flourishing religious realm and a nation free from theocracy.

Of course not. The first thing we have to remark is that the Citizens United case did not endow a single individual with any right to speak that he or she did not already have.

I do not think anyone takes the idea of a proposed 28th Amendment in the Constitution lightly.

I think it is because we believe that within the governmental process and the electoral process, there are right reasons for those who hold public office to make decisions, and there are wrong reasons.

I think it wise to include the word `reasonable' to ensure that legislatures do not prescribe limits that are so low that incumbents have an unfair advantage or that interfere with the freedom of the press.

So what we have done is we have converted every corporate treasury in the country into a potential political slush fund.

After five 5-4 decisions like these, the wall between democracy and plutocracy is crumbling.

We have been working on disclosure bills. But I have come to the conclusion and feel very strongly that those disclosure bills are important, and I appreciate you do not see them as unconstitutional, Mr. Abrams. But they are not going to…

Corporations do not have consciences, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, desires.

A one-size-fits-all approach is not going to work here.

I think our economy is doing better than it was certainly in the dark days of the crisis.

I hope I will be different. I do want to listen.

the lessons were many. I have served in both of those capacities during the time of really great financial crisis in our country.

the work has involved a lot regarding financial reform. And, as you know, Dodd-Frank is a comprehensive statute with many provisions.

It is a group that comes together, consists of the leaders of various financial regulatory agencies.

You are exactly dead-on correct that insurance companies have a very different set of asset liability structures than do banks.