Free Press Quotes - Page 5

• I have sworn to uphold the Constitution ... and a free press is absolutely vital to the freedom of this country.

  Peter Pace

  Country, Constitution, Presses

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• The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

  Andy Garcia

  Religious, Lgbt Community, Political

  "Cuban-American celebrities offer messages of hope following death of Fidel Castro". www.foxnews.com. November 27, 2016.

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• A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

  Jonathan Karl

  America, Enemy, Bigs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.

  Ben H. Winters

  America, Renaissance, Journalism

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.

  Ben H. Winters

  Reality, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.slate.com

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• For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

  Al Gore

  America, Democracy, Serious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Self, Quality

  Source: www.npr.org

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