Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of communication in wielding power in society.
Theodore White suggests that the ability to control communication channels is a key component of power in contemporary America. This reflects the idea that those who manipulate the flow of information can shape public perception, influence opinions, and ultimately govern society, emphasizing the crucial role of media and communication in politics.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about media influence in political campaigns.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
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