If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
![Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. -Felix Frankfurter](/quoteImage/198572/Freedom-of-the-press.jpg)
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy
I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.
I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
Frank Sinatra
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.
Gordon B. Hinckley
I know, I know, I probably do need a press manager, ... Jamie was like, JOOLS! But it was just, I was having this girly chat with the journalist and we were getting on so well, it just popped out.
This announcement is not in response to the union's press conference. This is an announcement we'd been working on for a number of months.
Arlene Murray
Maybe they should call Guinness to see about the record for the most frivolous press conference.
I knew we were going to have some trouble with their press, but I thought we handled it OK. We got in some foul trouble that hurt us and we changed the way we wanted to play. But our younger kids came in and did a nice job for us.
Jerry Stracke
Not only the press, but also the communities and the workers can't get a straight answer out of the company they work for, ... It benefits IBM because they know the truth, and they know that it's hard for others to get the full impact of this, so they just play this game with everybody.
That big run put us where we needed to be. We played good defense and the press really got to Mountainburg early and it got us some easy shots. That's the way we like to play.
Alan Barton
We would like to see some positive press coverage in our community, we want to see positive role models and leadership shown.
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
Bill Moyers
It would be a very foolish person who made any kind of judgement from how he answered tabloid questions at a press conference.
Some of the press stories indicate that they came from export earnings that had not yet been remitted to the government. But that's all I know on that. They did, as I noted, make the payment.
Tom Dawson
I knew Midfield would press from the beginning of the game to the end. We knew the outcome would be determined by how many turnovers we had. And we had a lot of turnovers.
Our press was effective, and in the second half we wore them down. It was a fast-paced game. That's the way we prefer it.
Clark Plichta