When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Journalist is not a profession; it is a trade. It can never rise to the status of a profession because journalists would… — Dov Ivry Copy Share Image
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Yet, we worry. American politicians now treat their rivals as enemies, intimidate the free press, and threaten to reject the results of… — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that as slow and frustrating as it sometimes is, our democracy, our free press and the rule of law work.… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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