“In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then.”

By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right… Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right.

The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is.

Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification.

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

To correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.

No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

From what we’ve heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They’re positive. They’re good. He thinks he’s got a good vision for America.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

Running for money doesn’t make you run fast. It makes you run first.

I can’t run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

I hate shopping. I don’t go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn’t think I was ready. I wasn’t comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.