I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
A free press needs to be a respected press.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.