"Higher education has been a critical force in advancing free inquiry in America."
"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."
"If we have no freedom of thought and speech on campus, it is hard to imagine where we are going to have it in the United States."
"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 theocra..."
"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 know this story."
"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, ..."
"Corporations do not have consciences, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, desires."
"I do not think anyone takes the idea of a proposed 28th Amendment in the Constitution lightly."
"Justice Stevens has repeatedly argued, money, of course, is not speech, money is property."
"After five 5-4 decisions like these, the wall between democracy and plutocracy is crumbling."