"We have to uphold a free press..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.”

“The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.”

“It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.”

“You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.”

“There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.”