Ari Fleischer Quotes

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

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

The best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

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

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

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

When the crisis at the core of our nation’s political decline is a direct attack on the truth, the institution that should take the lead in confronting and correcting that danger is the press.

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

There is a bias in the press for facts over fiction.

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

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

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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.

The journalist observes the laws of his country, but when the fulfillment of his professional duty is concerned he recognizes the jurisdiction of his colleagues only, and rejects any attempts of pressure and interference from the side of the government or whoever else.

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

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

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

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One I did, in fact, defend for 37 years.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

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