Michael Deaver Quotes

I know politics; I know the media.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Americans no longer gather in the streets to hear candidates; television is the new focal point of politics.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

It’s our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say it is our opinion.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

Television today is the stage on which the drama of politics is played out.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As a result, the public wisely let most of the hurly-burly of politics wash over their heads.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.

The media is so powerful.