"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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"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.“
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"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."
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"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."
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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 wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
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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 think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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