Graham Norton Quotes

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.

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

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.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

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

You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

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

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

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.

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 and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam

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

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.

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

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

It is a free press...There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

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