Press Quotes

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you.

a well organised party of the right ready to take over responsibility for national affairs with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Hitler and Mussolini have displayed

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

The underground press was convinced that I was a junkie, an acid head. ... But I don't do drugs. I don't like being f*cked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move."

any poll of American attitudes toward the press would suggest a lot of people share Mr. Stewart’s distrust of media, and if they had a Rally to Restore Respect for the Media, it would draw two people. And one of them would be a hot dog vendor.

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

Nor ever once ashamed
So we be named
Press-men; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of Light.

C.J. Cregg: I want you to get with one of your friends in the press room from a conservative paper.
Ainsley Hayes: You really think we have a secret handshake, don't you?
C.J. Cregg: Do you?
Ainsley Hayes: Yes.