Audience Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

— John Chancellor

There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are…

— James May

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have…

— Richard M. Nixon

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just…

— Mike Pence

I mean we take it for granted that a TV show is entertainment, but sometimes it's responsible for huge shifts in politics, in society.…

— John Whaite

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

— Warren Littlefield

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

— Bennett Cerf

I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.

— Dave Barry

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

— David Hare

“The present threat is not based on conflicting ideas about America's basic principles. It is based on several serious problems that stem from the…

— Al Gore

I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's tried to…

— Adrian Pasdar

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

— Irvine Welsh