My Paper Chase Quotes

“Government just cannot govern well without reliable independent reporting and criticism. No intelligence system, no bureaucracy, can offer the information provided by free competitive reporting; the cleverest agents of the secret police state are inferior to the plodding reporter of the democracy.”
― Harold Evans, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times

“Governments may know a lot more about our lives than we care to contemplate, but frequently they know less about the world than we presume.”
― Harold Evans, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times