Rod Lurie Quotes

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

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.

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

As long as I am Attorney General, no reporter who is doing his job is going to go to jail.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

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

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

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

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

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

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

To arrest a journalist for performing his duty is a confiscation of the freedom of expression guaranteed by all international pacts

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