Politics Doesn Quotes by Todd Gitlin

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on…

— Todd Gitlin

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

— Todd Gitlin

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

— Todd Gitlin

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…

— Todd Gitlin

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…

— Todd Gitlin

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

— Todd Gitlin

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in…

— Todd Gitlin

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

— Todd Gitlin

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that…

— Todd Gitlin

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

— Todd Gitlin

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

— Todd Gitlin

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

— Todd Gitlin

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

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…

— Todd Gitlin

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

— Todd Gitlin