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The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

You can almost taste the pressure now.

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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.

Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's not the student who wears a button that says, 'Smartest kid in class,' but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.