Anyone who talks about the media as the fourth estate in the state is mistaken. Today, the media are plaintiff, judge and executioner all in one.

The most reliable difference between the individual television programs is still the weather report.

Name me a country where journalists and politicians get along and I’ll tell you it’s not a democracy.

The media provide us with friend and enemy images. The critical recipients question these and the clever ones see through which topics are intended to conceal the true interests of some lobbies.

A cynical, venal, demagogic press will, in time, create a people who are just as vile as they are.

Sir, I don’t share your opinion, but I would bet my life that you are allowed to express it.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press mean first and foremost justice and criticism. No one has ever banned praise of the government.

You rejoice in the power of the press – do you never dread its tyranny?