Constitution Quote by Roger Mudd

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a…

— Bob Iger

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“In the classic liberal formulation, the press is seen as a pure expression of democracy. Thus, in the United States, the Constitution protects the…

— Cherian George

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange…

— Howard Brenton

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is…

— Theodore White

“In modern democracies, press freedom was being used as a cloak to shield media conglomerates’ domination of public discussion ‘in which misinformation may be…

— Ian Hargreaves

“Whenever a politician in the know gives a journalist an exclusive in exchange for a particular spin that is in the politician’s interest, the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of…

— Noah Webster

The media characterizes every conversation as an adversarial one.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

— Christabel Pankhurst

The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they…

— Ted Lieu

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain,…

— Julia Gillard