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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."

"Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."

"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"

"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition."

"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."

"The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters."

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending."

"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."

"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."

"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."
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