Donald Trump Quotes

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.

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.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

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

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

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

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

If you don't think a television news show represents the truth, you can turn off your TV. If you don't think a magazine represents the truth, you can cancel your subscription. You have the right to expose yourself to whatever information you want. But to have the government prescribing what the truth is or limiting the information available for the citizen is contrary to the 1st Amendment.

Liberty of the press is a privilege to publish, with impunity, falsehood on matters of public concern, in the honest belief it is truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends

If one seeks to disseminate his ideas by means of periodicals or pamphlets, the post-office officials may decline to transmit anything that does not suit their taste; and the courts have decided that the United States post-office has precisely the same right to refuse to carry The Masses that it has to exclude sulfuric acid and dynamite from the mails.

A free press may be good or bad, but without freedom a press can only be bad.

If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.