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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
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"Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
"That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow."
"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times."
"Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
"The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it."
"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."
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"The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers."
"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."
"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
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