"Absolutely no, in no circumstances."
"This effort must be seen in the context of their larger goal to amend the First Amendment to permit even more regulation of political speech."
"A simpler, more reasoned approach would be for us to adopt the Virginia plan: remove the limits, allow candidates to accept and report all contributions, and let the citizens decide what is proper or ..."
"New regulations will not make our system better. Getting rid of the regulations we have will."
"It is not our intention to ban movies or ban books or ban the NAACP from speaking."
"the precise idea of the First Amendment is to prevent Congress from deciding what is reasonable."
"Campaign finance reform restrictions are always pitched as, 'Let us prevent corruption, let us hold politicians accountable.' And they do exactly the opposite."
"Instead of suppressing free speech, let us look to State models for guidance."
"But tampering with our First Amendment rights is a dangerous business, and that is what this legislation before us aims to do."
"Is it your position that out of the 117,000 employees at the Department of Justice the only lawyer available to head this investigation was a major Obama donor?"
"I opposed that legislation, along with most of my Republican colleagues, because we feared it would make our system worse, not better."