Quotes About Public discourse

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we've done is given a voice to that broad middle ground.

Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents.

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

Trump might have a mouth like an open sewer, but at least he says something.

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

The nation state law has nothing controversial.

Las redes sociales le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas que antes hablaban sólo en el bar después de un vaso de vino, sin dañar a la comunidad. Entonces eran rápidamente silenciados, pero ahora tienen el mismo derecho a hablar que un Premio Nobel. Es la invasión de los imbéciles

We also held three public forums

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.

Football stadiums are just a reflection of what is going on in society. Many times in stadiums, people just feel more relaxed and say what they think when they're somewhere else.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.