Robert Kennedy Quotes

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

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

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

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

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

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.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

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

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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.

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.