Best government & presses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.”

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

Want God Government Chance Ought Presses Censorship Chances Are Censoring Pseudonyms

Author:Anatole France

“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.”

World Government School Steps Careers Policy Television Fellows Presses Corporate Publishing Harvard Public Policy

Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.”

Real States Enough Government Interest Religious Views Liberty Particular Speech Presses Doctrine Freedom Of Speech Standpoint Distasteful

Author:Tom C. Clark

“University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.”

Book Government Purpose Calling Presses University Printing Printing Press

Author:Francis Cornford

“It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.”

Government Majors Advantage Argument Function Presses Free Press

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Government Today Names Media Information Duty Criticism Pressure Presses

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.”

Important Government Criticism Presses Democratic Officials Thoughtful Scrutiny Democratic Society Government Officials

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1980-1981

“London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.”

Doe Government Law Presses London Seats

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.”

“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. A free press ensures the flow of information to the public, and let me say, during a time when the role of government in our lives and in our enterprises seems to grow every day--both at home and abroad - ensuring the vitality of a free and independent press is more important than ever.”

“In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.”

Stills Government Murder Presses Vulnerable Torture Spite Socialist Engaging Accusation Kidnapping Basques Socialist Government

Book:The Basque History of the World

Source: The Basque History of the World

“The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.”

“Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.”

Way Years Government America Ability One Thing Media Style Changed Presses Honestly Freedom Of Speech Free Press Year One

Author:Candice S. Miller

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.”

People Government Together Acting Moral Presses Free Press Acting Together

Author:James Mill

“A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.”

Government Existence Authority Presses Validity

Author:Stephen Colbert

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.”

May Government Evil Teacher Teaching Economics Criticism Presses Foolish Regulation Petty Cripples Government Regulation Uninformed

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.”

People Ifs Government Style Presses Western Motive Relevant Defects Western Society

Author:William Pfaff

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