Justin Trudeau Quotes

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

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.

Democracy without a free press is inconceivable.

Democracies die in darkness.... I don't realluy think that President Trump really believes that the press is the "enemy of the people"

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

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

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

… the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

The job of a political correspondent is the challenge the people in power. If you are in power, I will challenge you.

You really can’t have a democracy if the government knows the content of every conversation between journalists and their sources. You can’t have a democracy with that kind of surveillance going on.

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.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

Only in democratic countries is there the beginning of a suspicion that the old axioms about the press being the bulwark of liberty is something that affects the daily life of the people--that it is a living warning rather than an ancient wisecrack. A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press..

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. ... And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.

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.]

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

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

All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.