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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.
~ 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.
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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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I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
~ 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 wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
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It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
~ Todd Gitlin
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Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
~ Todd Gitlin
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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
~ Todd Gitlin
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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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My business is the analytical framework.
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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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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
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Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
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So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
~ Todd Gitlin
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
~ Todd Gitlin
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Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
~ Todd Gitlin
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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
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