Ari Melber Quotes

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

The press must be free; it has always been so and much evil has been corrected by it. If Government finds itself annoyed by it, let it examine its own conduct and it will find the cause.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

Democracy without a free press is inconceivable.

The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

You really can’t have a democracy if the government knows the content of every conversation between journalists and their sources. You can’t have a democracy with that kind of surveillance going on.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry.

Democracies die in darkness.... I don't realluy think that President Trump really believes that the press is the "enemy of the people"

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.