John McCain Quotes

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

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

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

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

We journalists in America take it for granted that we are not going to be killed for our work. Unfortunately, this is not true elsewhere in the world.

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

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

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.

Pakistan is an anomaly in the Islamic world, in the sense that there is a free press, which is amazing. I can't think of another Islamic country where the press is so free….one cannot claim that there is no fear. There is fear, but more and more people are saying what they want to say

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

This is about standing for fundamental values that have been the foundation for the development of Western democracies over several hundred years, and we are now in a situation where those values are being challenged. I think some of the Muslims who have reacted very strongly to these cartoons are being driven by totalitarian and authoritarian impulses, and the nature of these impulses is that if you give in once they will just put forward new requirements. We do not apologize for printing the cartoons. It was our right to do so.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

For thirty years the press has ceased to exist in Turkey. There are indeed newspapers, many of them even, but the scissors of censorship cut them in so emasculating a manner that they no longer have any potency. If I dare, I would call them gelded newspapers or rather, to keep the local color, eunuchs.

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

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 United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

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

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost