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My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the p

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. – Todd Gitlin

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldnt say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. – Todd Gitlin

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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. – Todd Gitlin

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power
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. – Todd Gitlin

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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. – Alastair Campbell

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I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Dont blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. – Peter Singer

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Politics

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. Its highly, highly polarised. Its right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. – Nick Clegg

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Politics

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. – Lucy Powell

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Politics

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. – Plato

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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. – Hailliard

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I now know the color of fear — it’s brown. – Author Unknown

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Theyre trying to tell us that were not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you cant know who you are if you dont spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. – Naomi Judd

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