Lucius Clay Faulkland Quotes

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

The media are the opposition party.

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

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Our press has too much freedom …. Democracy is a very lovely thing for a developed people.

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

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

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.

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.

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.

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

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.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks.

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.

This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.

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

The media have entered government as a revolutionary force.

I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. […] power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

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

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.