Quotes of: Free-press Keyword

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Tom Stoppard

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

Andrew Vachss

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Samuel Dash

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chris Chocola

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

Naomi Wolf

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Hugo Black

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Milos Forman

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Christiane Amanpour

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

Esther Dyson

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Robert Scheer

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

How the press, for example, loves to brag to its victims— its readers—about its freedom. Yes, the press may be free to lie and distort and suppress and deceive and malign, but is it free to tell the truth?

An Appeal to Reason: a Compendium of the Writings of Willis A. Carto

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Christopher Dodd

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

Xavier Niel

One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.

Eli Roth