“We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.”
—President-elect Donald Trump (December 7, 2015)

“What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
—Rudy Giuliani, Former New York City Mayor, under consideration for U.S. Secretary of State (March 20, 1994)

“Folks on TV . . . these are the same people who have ridiculed and mocked the American people for just about too long, don’t you think? And now it is our time to put them on trial.”
—Laura Ingraham, under consideration for White House Press Secretary (November 6, 2016)

“The reign of terror that the snakes @nytimes @washingtonpost @CNN @MSNBC @ABCPolitics @NBCNews @CBS had over our politics is over. Killed it.”
—Sheriff David Clarke, under consideration for U.S. Homeland Security Secretary  (November 11, 2016)

“You have freedom of speech so I can be heard.”
—Rudy Giuliani, Former New York City Mayor, under consideration for U.S. Secretary of State (March 20, 1994)