Al Gore Quotes

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

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

No man ought to be hindered saying or writing what he pleases on the conduct of those who undertake the management of national affairs, in which all are concerned, and therefore have the right to inquire, and to publish their suspicions concerning them. For if you punish the slanderer, you deter the fair inquirer.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense—the sheerest mockery.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

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.

No government ought to be without censors: & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Somebody ought to do on article on you, on your damn profession, your 1st Amendment.

Free and open communications is the best guarantee of democracy.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates

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.

I do believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal And in the traces lead ‘em.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

We must have a free press. If we are to maintain democracxy as we know it, we must have a free and adversarial press.... That's how dictoators get power [by intimidating, restriciting and censoring the press.]

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.