Free Speech

I don’t think we need to yell, but the other side of it is that I do think we need to listen. People yell when they don’t feel heard, so we need to listen.

And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

We may discover that the gates maintained by our new gatekeepers are narrower than ever.

I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism.

This judgment is a new attack on the freedom of the press.

Today is Texas Muslim Capital Day in Austin…I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws. We will see how long they stay in my office.

Let me be very clear: the single most offensive name that you can call an American Indian is ‘Redskin.’

We are dealing in lethal firearms. I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Klu Klux Klan member in here, either.

Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.

They say that nothing is going to be accomplished here; the division is wider than ever, so gridlock will be even greater. No, this won’t be done in a tidy way. The battle of ideas never ends, and, frankly, never should.

The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

[We remember] Martin Luther King as an idea, Selma as an idea…what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.