As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
We're going to open up the libel laws. So when they write falsely, we can sue the media and we can get… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel.” — David Cordingly Copy Share Image
no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory. — Jonathan Lubell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a… — Geoffrey Gorer Copy Share Image
If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless,… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words. — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
“People who have never sued anyone or been sued have missed a narcissistic pleasure that is not quite like any other.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“It is certainly the case that if you are often reviewed, you will find yourself repeatedly blamed and praised for saying what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies… — Harry Kalven Copy Share Image
When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“What looks to be the cleanest political party, for a period, will often prove to be the filthiest in the end. Just… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“ Tickler : I hate novelties. Is the prosecution mania about to subside, think you? Now-a-days, every word is said to be… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space… — David Irving Copy Share Image