The most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
The press is the enemy.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
The news is the first rough draft of history.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
The news is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
I cannot live without books.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
There's no such thing as a free press. If you want to publish someone else's ideas, you usually have to pay for the privilege.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.