The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
Penn JillettePeople need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.
Penn JilletteTeller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Penn JilletteHow I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.
Penn JilletteThe only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. Heโs about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? Thereโd be riots in the streets about the people weโre killing. And yet because itโs Obama, and heโs better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.
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