Daniel D. Rostenkowski Quotes

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I apologize for what the media has done.

How can you govern if you always have to feed the news cycle?

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

The media cause more problems than they do good.

I think the media is a real demon.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

All the media are horrible.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

The media are the opposition party.

Whoever said I hated the media?

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

I know politics; I know the media.