Ratan Tata Quotes

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

I wish that the television would show the long shot. They show you an angry mob violently protesting. But if you look at a long shot, you see that it is 10 idiots in a parking lot.

The media can be a megaphone for terrorists to communicate their message. The media should put things in perspective and context and not instinctively do what the terrorists want the media to do.

Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

The public are not stupid.

It’s a fact that minds are poisoned throughout the Middle East.

Our government has been unable to expel foreign clerics who preach violence and the destruction of the state.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

Diplomats lie to journalists, then believe the headlines.

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

Iran as the birthplace of conspiracy theories. [However] We are not the only place where there are conspiracy theories; the United States has Conspiracy Theories as well.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.