"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."

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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."

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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."

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"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."

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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."

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"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."

John Sexton, American Educator

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"I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that."

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"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

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"With the press there is no "off the record.""

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"The press is like the air, a chartered libertine."

William Pitt, British Leader

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