Amy Goodman Quotes

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

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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

Free and open communications is the best guarantee of democracy.

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

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant

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

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

In our own country, we take democratic values seriously - and so we always have a vigorous debate on the issues. That's part of the greatness of America, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.