Squelch Quotes

We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable. - Bill Moyers

Usually, if you know your stuff, you can help them. You can squelch that fire. - Rose Tarver

There's a real free speech issue, but it's Larry squelching other people's free speech. He's an incredible bully. - Daniel Fisher

The public has a right to know whether the government is doing what it's supposed to in cases like this... If the government has the power to squelch all that information under the guise of attorney-client privilege, that doesn't instill confidence. It says, 'Don't file the compliant, it can be covered up.' - Frank Gibson

The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie. - Shapley R Hunter

The Bush administration has squelched freedom of speech. - Tom Ford

Searle paid off the prosecutors by getting them fat jobs. Next came the political reward: Skinner was soon Secretary of Transportation, squelching cries of the pilots having grand mal seizures in commercial airliners from this seizure-triggering chemical, which ruined the careers of many pilots. - Betty Martini

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. - Johnny Rotten

It's not being used as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney would have it - to protect Americans. It's being used to squelch dissent. - Leigh Johnson