Press Quotes

• The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Press
  • Governors

• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
  • Press
  • Weapon
  • Ideological

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

  

  Albert Camus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Press

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

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Press
  • Ownership
  • Free Speech

• Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi
  • Press
  • Differently
  • Describes

• Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Workers
  • Capitalist
  • Quotes

• I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nervous
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• When I first got successful, I was particularly aware of being immaculate at all times, so I would get on a plane in one outfit, and get off in another. It doesn't happen in today's world, but when you are met by the press at both ends, you do have to.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Successful
  • Press
  • Plane

• We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Pop Records

• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Press
  • Irony

• When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

  

  Gaby Sanchez
  • Things
  • Going
  • Them

• I think that if Americans put critical thought, which I think they will, into what they are reading in these newspapers and actually what is being accomplished by the Trump administration, they would realize that the press in many cases has not been doing their job in reporting the truth.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Truth
  • Reading
  • Americans

• A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Should
  • Wanted
  • Because

• Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Art
  • Books
  • Works

• Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

  

  Georges Limbour
  • Humanity
  • Essence
  • Press

• He says he's got too many important things to do than to assist an ambitious candidate to continue to milk the press for free publicity.

  

  Alice Stewart
  • Press
  • Candidate
  • Publicity

• I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

  

  Bono U2
  • Audience
  • Hear
  • Public Opinion

• News is the most — the most human thing there is, reflecting the changing picture of our daily lives and the world around us. Fleeting, of course, but essential. A free press is the most vital and important element in a democracy. Why, you can always tell when democracy is threatened because attempts are made to stifle free expression and keep people from knowing what is going on and forming their own judgments.” She added thoughtfully, “It is terrible to see news distorted and falsified for private ends or personal gain or to engender hatred or serve totalitarian purposes as has happened abroad and is happening here every day.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Element

• Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Lie
  • Press
  • Personal Life

• As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day - both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.

  

  Mike Pence
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Information

• 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.

  

  George Sutherland
  • People
  • Government
  • Press

• And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.

  

  Bohumil Hrabal
  • Command
  • Moves
  • Buttons

• Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Press
  • Blinded
  • Theorists

• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

  

  Sydney Schanberg
  • Press
  • Organizations
  • Covering

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

previous

next