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Quotes About Press

Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be exceedingly careful not to try a man in the newspapers and magazines before he comes to court. In such cases when a newspaper becomes an accuser or prejudger, turning public sentiment, the paper can be named as a defendant to the action. It keeps journalism honest.
~ Leon Uris
Those memories press into me like rude, insistent fingers as I walk toward the back door.
~ Linda Castillo
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
~ Albert Einstein
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," said Jefferson, "it expects what never was and never will be. . . . The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
~ Aldous Huxley
Press. And especially my beloved Anne, whose courage never flagged.
~ Donald McCaig
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.
~ Dr. Seuss
You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
~ Victoria Woodhull
What was the point of becoming famous anyway? The Press dumped on you when you were alive, and pigeons when you were dead.
~ Jilly Cooper
involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.
~ Jim Bishop
I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
~ Jim Lehrer
wrote that freedom of the press "is a deception." He mocked freedom of assembly as a "hollow phrase." As for parliamentary democracy itself, that was no more than "a machine for the suppression of the working class." In the Bolshevik imagination, the press could be free, and public institutions could be fair, only once they were controlled by the working class—via the party.
~ Anne Applebaum
religious tolerance, independent judiciaries, free press and speech, economic integration, international institutions, the transatlantic alliance, and a political idea of "the West.
~ Anne Applebaum
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
~ Anne Campbell
public demonstrations, a freer press, and freer elections were not enough to keep the Soviet Union together.
~ Anne Garrels
I am so honoured to be a part of the games industry, but I understand that people are sick of hearing my voice and hearing my promises. So I'm going to stop doing press and I'm going to stop talking about games completely.
~ Peter Molyneux
I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
~ Brian De Palma
The reason I choose not to speak about my husband is because the press is prone to erase the individual identities of women who work in the industry. I don't want that to happen to me.
~ Kanika Dhillon
It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they are the largest, most powerful, and least accountable political advocacy group in the country, Americans also need to do more than complain as the press harms the country.
~ Mollie Hemingway
When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.
~ Johan Cruyff
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.
~ Michael Reagan