Hillary Clinton Quotes

My contempt for the instruments of public information—particularly the press, is unlimited ...

All the media are horrible.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

I apologize for what the media has done.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.

Whoever said I hated the media?

I hate journalists. I don't trust them.

Most journalists are idiots.

The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the job description. But you turn around and criticize them, and that's not permitted in the vacuum in which they live. They have free rein over you, because I guess this is how they define their constitutional responsibility. And since they have constitutional recognition, somehow they've all been taught at journalism school that nobody may assail them, that nobody may criticize them.