Our regulations should also be clear for every offence and their punishment. We should not use force to ban media platforms.

[But] we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I’m totally against sanctions, I don’t believe in muzzling the press. I don’t believe government should be in the business of trying to threaten media regardless of the mistakes media make. But I also believe media should be able to hold itself accountable. Our job is to hold power accountable.

We must not allow the abuse of legal mechanisms or the manipulation of constitutional processes to silence the voices of the people or undermine the integrity of our elections.

It is not our policy to suppress success.

Let's examine the right of freedom of speech. Nobody will shut us up! We don't owe to any bum anything in this State or Country! Here we don't have censorship!

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

We are determined to protect our freedom of speech and the right to speak our minds without fear of the politically correct thought-police knocking on our doors.

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

We cannot allow quibbles to stand in the way of the truth.

We cannot allow activism to be stifled because of all the paranoia going around.

...one should also not allow our opponents to determine the field and topic of the struggle.

Media freedom plays an indispensable role in informing the public, holding governments accountable, and telling stories that otherwise would not be told. The U.S. will continue to stand up for the brave and necessary work of journalists around the world.