What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.
Lewis H. Lapham
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Albert Camus
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan `press on` has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression
James Madison
On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
Christian Bale
(To the press after the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, in 1969) "...All of you know how beautiful she was but few of you know how good she was."
Roman Polanski
He`s terrific. I think Casino Royale (2006) is a huge step forward - a leap forward. It`s great and Daniel`s great. He got a lot of stick when he was doing it. There was a lot of negative press. He was criticized by people who didn`t have a clue what was ...
Timothy Dalton
I love acting but I don`t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
Nicole Kidman
[after the last press junket for LOTR:] "I certainly grew up a lot on the movie. I arrived in New Zealand when I was 21 and now I`m 27. It`s a defining point in any young man`s life. I just did a massive overhaul of every facet of my personality and worke...
Dominic Monaghan
[on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness"] It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not as...
Stephen Colbert
I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I`ve always done that with the press.
Kiefer Sutherland
I was one of those people who was literally famous for doing nothing . . . I was always a part of the club scene in New York and eventually was able to produce my own musical about AIDS ["Positive Me"] because of the audience and press I received as a clu...
Lisa Edelstein
I think I get a very unfortunate view of the press. I think of what is written about me, about 5% of it is accurate. I`m not comfortable with them, they`re not comfortable with me. I certainly am not comfortable with photographers. -1970`s
[Talking abo...
Paul Newman
He`s a precious man. He`s got a lot of bad press lately but I think he`s out to try to save the world, not destroy it (Commenting on Cat Stevens` (Yusuf Islam`s) deportation from the United States in September 2004 (Source - "The Daily Show" (1996) Octobe...
Dolly Parton
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses
Vladimir Lenin
