The First Amendment does not allow us to silence those who oppose us.
Campaign finance reform is all about lower the limits, lower the limits, restrict the speech, restrict the speech.
I opposed that legislation, along with most of my Republican colleagues, because we feared it would make our system worse, not better.
In my view, the integrity of the Department of Justice has been severely compromised.
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 ...
I would call upon you to carry out the tradition of independence that Attorneys General have honored.
But tampering with our First Amendment rights is a dangerous business, and that is what this legislation before us aims to do.
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.
No individual or group in this country should have to face harassment or intimidation or incur crippling expenses defending themselves again...
I want to say thank you to both the witnesses for joining us today.