Press Quotes

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity, over error and oppression.

My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.

I've grown up in the press my entire life.

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

It astonishes me to find... that so many of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

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

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

The [London] Times has made many ministries.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, exceeding that of the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. Yet one would like to ask: According to what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the Communist East, a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power, for how long a time, and with what prerogatives?