Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

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.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

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.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.