Political Quotes

“would it be appropriate to say, I ask my friend from Kentucky, that at the present time under the first amendment the American people are free to participate in their political system and in public affairs pretty much in any way they wish, that their freedom of speech is entirely unlimited? And would it be fair also to say that the thrust of this constitutional amendment is that its sponsors are asking the American people to give the Congress of the United States the right to devise, to knit together a gag which is then to be applied to the American people themselves, not just candidates but to any American who wishes to express his views about a candidate, any organization that wishes to express its views about a candidate, for that matter, any newspaper or television station that wishes to express its view about a candidate; that this constitutional amendment says that what has been entirely free, an entirely free process, we now ask that you allow us to impose whatever we consider to be a reasonable gag upon your exercise of that right?”