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It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.
“It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.”
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“It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.”
“I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters.”
“Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.”
“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.”
“I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.”
“I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.”
“The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.”
“America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.”
“We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.”
“In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.”
“In the past, it's been possible to say that calls for repeal of the Second Amendment or widespread gun bans and confiscation were crackpot calls outside the mainstream of American liberalism. But during the Parkland response, that has become progressively less plausible.”