Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

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

An ordinance that permits a mayor to say yes to a friendly [news]paper and no to a critical paper is an ordinance that has to fall.

The 1st Amendment does not mandate that the press be accurate.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

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

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.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

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

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

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

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

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

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

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

The press, that distinguished appendage of public liberty … has been invariably prostituted …

The first responsibility of the press is to use its freedom to protect the rights and liberties of all individuals …. If the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.

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

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

Those whose ox the press gores cry foul every time.

The Constitution does not guarantee objectivity of the press …. The question … is not whether news shall be unprejudiced but rather whose prejudices shall color the news.

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.

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

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.