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Todd Gitlin

"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."

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Donna Grant

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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Donna Grant

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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Donna Grant

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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Donna Grant

"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

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Donna Grant

"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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Donna Grant

"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."

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Donna Grant

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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Donna Grant

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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Donna Grant

"State first, subject second, statesman last."

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Todd Gitlin
"The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened."

Change

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Todd Gitlin
"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."

Heart

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Todd Gitlin
"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."

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Todd Gitlin
"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."

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Todd Gitlin
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."

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Todd Gitlin
"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."

Power

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Todd Gitlin
"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."

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Todd Gitlin
"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."

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Todd Gitlin
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."

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Todd Gitlin
"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

People

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