Donald Trump doesn't care about free speech. The man who tweets everything that enters his head doesn't care about the amendment which lets him do that.
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.
The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment.
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
