Quotes about "Politics & Government"

A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed. ”

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked. ”

Political parties exist to get bums on seats. ”

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ”

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ”

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ”

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. ”

After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me. ”

We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace... This is an issue that should be left to our states. ”

The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people. ”