On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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.
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.