American people Quote by Scott McClellan

“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our…

— Gore Vidal

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the…

— Naomi Wolf

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

— John Gutfreund

“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its…

— Ralph Ellison

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that,…

— Craig Benson

The fact that Americans do have this ingrained optimism, even against a lot of actual information about how things work, is not that bad…

— Brendan Hunt

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

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there…

— Sheri Fink

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

— Walter Cronkite

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and…

— Amity Shlaes

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

We've found that people crave a thoughtful exchange of ideas in a long-form interview, which is why the tradition that we have inherited from…

— Margaret Hoover