 All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. |
| Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. |
| The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. |
| The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy. |
| Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live. |
| Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. |
| Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. |
| 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. |
| Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. |
