A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Joseph Pulitzer

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
William Pitt

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
Daniel Libeskind

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Sophia Bush

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Luis Bunuel

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.
Christopher Atkins

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
Matthew Perry

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.
Emma Watson

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.
Kenneth Starr

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
Nick Faldo

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Christopher Lasch

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
Sydney Schanberg

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
Bob Woodward

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
Marla Maples

Every President hates the Press.
Helen Thomas