Aberto Gonzales Quotes

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

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

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

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

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Thank God we have a press that tells us what you guys are doing.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The media are much better at keeping politicians honest and accountable. They are not willing to look the other way as they sometimes have in the past.

The first duty of the Press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them to make them the common property of the nation.

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.

The fourth estate which if not well looked to, will turn us all out of doors.

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.

This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.

The best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.