Leslie Cagan Quotations

I think most people see through that and see that as a desperate attempt to silence people, to make people believe their voices won't matter. There's nothing un-American about it, or not supporting our troops, or anything like that.

We must separate out education from military recruitment.

We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another non-bid contract.

We are very alarmed that our First Amendment rights have been undermined to the degree that the city of Boston now thinks the rights of free expression, the right to rally and protest means you get out into an area like this.

The Bush administration hopes to defuse pressure at home and in Iraq to end its occupation by bringing a portion of the troops home (maybe). But withdrawing some troops is completely unacceptable.

The mobilization is going well. On any given day, there is so much going on it is hard to quantify.

It's one thing to monitor protests and protest organizers, but quite another thing to refer them to your counterterrorism unit.

Exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sun-baked highway makes a mockery of the right to assemble,

The issue is what is the balance between security and our Constitutional rights to assemble? We think the city of Boston has gone way overboard in the name of security.