Rand Paul Quotes

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

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

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

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

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

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

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, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

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 may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

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

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

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.