John McCain Quotes

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

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

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

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

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

The only security of all is in a free press.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

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 best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

We are a better country because the press gets 1000 facts right every day.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. […] power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.