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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.