Michael Moriarty Quotes

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

Prior restraints on speech and publication are the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

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

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

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

The ministry of interior may censor newspapers and ban them if they include anything that violates public security, threatens national unity, or contradicts Islam.

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

The danger of unbounded liberty [of printing], and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of Government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve.

It's not censorship. It's common sense use of the taxpayer's money.

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.