| "Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." G. K. Chesterton |
| "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." Walter Lippman |
| "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day just exactly fits in the newspaper." Jerry Seinfield |
| "The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram." E. Anthony |
| "For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers." G.K. Chesterton |
| "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." Harry S Truman, Mr. Citizen, 1960. |
| "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." Edwin Schlossberg |
| "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault." Henry Kissinger |
| "In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it." Gilbert K. Chesterton, British author, 1874-1936. |
| "I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news." Ben Jonson, British playwright, (1572-1637). |
| "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to Col. Edward Carrington", January 16, 1787 |
| "As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." Benjamin Disraeli |
| "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive." Henry Miller |
