Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
My position has always been that there’s two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don’t know what they’re talking about, and those who don’t know what they’re missing.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Any time there’s a scandal, we always try and get involved.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice’s argument that you can’t scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
The right-wing of the Republican party isn’t so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
If you’re not going to offend somebody you don’t need the First Amendment.
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
I’ve always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.
Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.
Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are.
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I’m not paralyzed from the neck up.
I don’t think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
You know, a huge drain on California’s economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.
People aren’t interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
If the human body’s obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.