Political Quotes

“My colleague from New York, absolutely. Benjamin Franklin wrote that ``whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'' And I will just roll into that speech and the press. And we have seen what Trump has done. He sued CBS News for $10 billion because he didn't like the way that a program was edited on the television. There is no way that that suit would ever have held up in court. But what happened, CBS said: Hmm, we are involved in a merger, and that merger involves Paramount, controlling shareholder, and they wanted approval for a sale of Paramount to Skydance, and Paramount was CBS's parent company. So here is President Trump holding the approval of that merger over the head of the network to get a payment for himself out of the company, and that was $16 million in the end, but then CBS announced it was canceling the ``Late Show with Stephen Colbert''--top-rated late-night show. Surprisingly, 3 weeks after CBS canceled it, the merger was completed between Skydance and Paramount. Trump didn't like all the things Colbert did to make fun of the President. You know, you can judge the freedom of a country by how much people feel they can say funny things about the President. And I have thought many times, I come to this floor, and I criticize the President of the United States.…”