Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.