And now, a few words about our favorite sponsor, the First Amendment:

&8220;Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.&8221; &8212; Hubert Humphrey, 38th U.S. vice president, 1965

&8220;Editor &8212; and reporters, and especially owners &8212; don&8217;t like to be accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, even though they know it not to be true. It riles the kooks and the woolly hats of this world, and results in a great deal of ill-tempered and unneccesary correspondence.&8221;

&8212; Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor, The Washington Post, 1995

&8220;As long as we have the First Amendment, the people rule.&8221; &8212; Rosa Maria Pegueros, history professor, University of Rhode Island, 1998

&8220;Great newspapers are great because talented, ambitious reporters and writers seek them out to work for them, not just because the owners have laudable intentions.&8221; &8212; Holman W. Jenkins, journalist, editorial writer, The Wall Street Journal, 2007

&8220;New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.&8221; &8212; John Locke, British philosopher, essayist, 1690

&8220;The media may pick the topic of discussion, but if nobody is listening, it doesn&8217;t matter.&8221; &8212; Elizabeth Royall, student, American University, 2007

&8220;To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.&8221; &8212; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, 1918

&8220;I believe that unless we preserve absolute freedom of expression, democracy will perish.&8221; &8212; Frank E. Gannett, Gannett Co. founder, 1957

&8220;If you don&8217;t have regular care and feeding of the press, they will eat you.&8221; &8212; Trent Lott, U.S. senator, R-Miss. 1996

&8220;People grow or diminish in moral stature by the words which they speak and the messages which they choose to hear.&8221; &8212; Pope John Paul II, 2004