Robert Rinder Quotes

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

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

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

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it any definition that would not leave the utmost latitude for evasion …. Its [the press's] security … must altogether depend on public opinion.

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

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

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.]

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

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

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.

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

Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

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

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

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

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

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

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 state must not ... let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called "freedom of the press," ... it must make sure of this instrument of popular education, and place it in the service of the state.