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Quotes About Press

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
~ Victoria Pendleton
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
~ William Banting
From the very beginning, Americans have refused to tolerate unchecked power. We must now press our legislators to protect us from the unchecked power of dominant digital platforms.
~ Paul Romer
Workers who campaigned for Populist tickets were blacklisted and could not find jobs. Barriers to voting, such as the poll tax or education requirements, were stiffened. Press aligned with one party or the other "systematically played on racial, sectional, and class fears to alert readers to the Populist menace.
~ Sarah Chayes
How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing
~ Scott Lynch
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
~ Karl Kraus
Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
~ Marshall Field
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
~ Ai Weiwei
I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.
~ Barbara Boxer
The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.
~ Barbara Boxer
And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-
~ Rick Riordan
You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.
~ Lynne Stewart
If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
~ Michael Birch
Every revolutionary movement has its peaks of united activity and its valleys of debate and internal confusion. This debate might well have been little more than a healthy internal difference of opinion, but the press loves the sensational and it could not allow the issue to remain within the private domain of the movement. In every drama there has to be an antagonist and a protagonist, and if the antagonist is not there the press will find and build one.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.
~ Arthur Koestler
For this reason, doctors are seldom outraged when the press reports yet another medical horror story. They usually have a different reaction: That could be me.
~ Atul Gawande
Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.
~ Stephen Colbert
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping
~ Michael Hutchence
Pickled by his own press release, fermenting in ruined optimism.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Misfortune is the mother's milk of journalism
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
~ Jonathan Kozol
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
~ Eric Clapton