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Todd Gitlin

"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."

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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."

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"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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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
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"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
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"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
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"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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"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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