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Todd Gitlin

"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."

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"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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Donna Grant

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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Donna Grant

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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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."

Life

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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."

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."

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."

Media

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

Environment

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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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Todd Gitlin
"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."

Work

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Todd Gitlin
"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history."

History

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