The Press Quotes

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.

I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant.

I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.