Graydon Carter Quotes

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Punishing libels public or private is foolish, because it does not answer the end, and because the end is a bad one, if it could be answered.

Every libel … is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment..

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

If somebody writes something and it's true, you're not gonna be able to prevail and get damages, hear it.

Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you. You can say a lot of things. You can write books about him, damning him. So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

There is no protection against slander.