John Major Quotes

I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

How united would the United States be without its newspapers?

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

I don't think about the media.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.