The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going -… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family]… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism,… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people.… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more.… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
