American Quote by David Hare

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're…

— Molly Ivins

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or…

— George Lakoff

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most…

— George Gerbner

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more…

— Al Gore

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're…

— Guy Burgess

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

— Callie Khouri

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

— Jack Germond

Literally, I don't have a television. So I don't really know what's happening pop-culturally. I read the 'New York Times.' And there's one worldwide…

— Cary Fukunaga

There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.

— Robert Drew