Andrew Marr Quotes

A people without reliable news is, sooner or later, a people without the basis of freedom.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

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

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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

All the news that fits we print.

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

Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

Reporters aren't actually people!

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.

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 newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.