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"What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."
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"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
Public
"But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating."
Finance
"What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly."
People
"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."
Journalism
"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention."
Money
"If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them."
Race
"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
Competition
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
Public
"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
Society
"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
Government
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