"We're trying to protect the First Amendment. We're trying to protect the government from chilling American speech."
"I want to thank our witnesses for coming."
"As Justice Scalia once explained, "It is the very business of government to favor and disfavor points of view on innumerable subjects.""
"What does the Biden Administration have up their sleeve in these last six months before the election? What are they going to try to censor now?"
"We are doing something we know not to be accurate. We're going to take that is disinformation from our government."
"The implications were huge. Again, the First Amendment protects false speech."
"Maybe the most important point is when you violate the First Amendment, public debate gets distorted and when that happens, you get bad policy."
"This is dangerous, risky research, and everyone involved with that, that I know of, has stated that at one point in their life or other."
"This investigation is not over, and Dr. Daszak, we are not throwing the baby out with the bath water when it comes to advances in scientific research."
"Because Congress has a responsibility to ensure American taxpayer dollars are spent in accordance with the law, and that rigorous oversight is applied to the entities that receive these funds, and as ..."
"We are concerned about global health. We're not trying to throw the baby out with the bath water."