top of page
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Race quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"In the biological sense, race does not exist."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is nothing like race, is there?"

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important."

Explore more quotes by Robert McChesney

Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"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."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"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."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"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."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."
Quote_1.png
Robert McChesney
"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun."
bottom of page