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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Vladimir Lenin
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander...
T. E. Lawrence
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Newt Gingrich
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
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
Helen Thomas
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
Miloš Forman
Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Luis Buñuel
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
Don Tapscott
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
Ken Thompson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.
Gore Vidal
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
H. P. Lovecraft
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
Tyra Banks
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