Free Speech
She was the main Democratic sponsor of the failed 2006 constitutional Flag Desecration Amendment.
She also voted for the McCain-Feingold legislation.
In 2007, Feinstein was asked in a Fox News interview whether she would revive the Fairness Doctrine and she replied that she was looking at it.
In 2010 Dianne Feinstein voted in favour of unilateral US censorship of the Internet by voting in favour of COICA. Also in 2010, Dianne Feinstein said in reference to Cablegate, "Whoever released this information should be punished severely."
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Famous quotes containing the words free speech, free and/or speech:
“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“I struck the board, and cried, ‘No more,
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts.... It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that—being what it is—it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)