Political Quotes

“Mr. President, a free, independent press is vital to our democracy. It is enshrined in our Constitution. We need tenacious, dedicated journalists, who will afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, to ask tough questions, to challenge special interests, to connect Americans with their communities. That is why I joined my colleagues this week on a resolution condemning this administration's awful, vicious, demagogic attacks on reporters--including the decision last week to bar a reporter from attending a White House event just because the White House didn't like the questions she asked--with the repeated labeling of the free press as ``enemies of the people.'' Watch the video from last night. Watch the video in Florida from last night where the President egged on, egged on, and egged on his supporters to start screaming at newspaper reporters and other reporters--people who are doing their jobs. In spite of this President using Stalinist language--I am just reading a book right now written by a Stalinist translator, and this book talks about a lot of the language Stalin used. He called people ``enemies of the people.'' That is Communist talk. That is Stalinist talk. Yet this President calls reporters who get up every day and do their jobs--most of them not paid very well, frankly--the enemy of the people. They do vital work not just in Washington but throughout the country. I would like to take a moment to highlight one of them.…”