Laura Kuenssberg Quotes

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

The press are scum.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition that would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion …. Its [the press's] security … must altogether depend on public opinion.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The decision of what, when, and how to publish is for editors, not judges.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.