Bob Woodward Quotes

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

I believe you have to get rid of toxicity in any company. Don't care how smart, how talented, how long they have been there. If someone is going to create a toxic environment, you have to make a change.

The pollsters who have telephoners are going to consistently get a lower vote for Donald Trump because the media has attacked him so savagely and so dishonestly that a substantial number of people will not say they're for Trump.

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

People only know what they see on TV.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

People have the freedom to say what they want, and I get it - mean stuff sells better than nice stuff.

We're looking at two different presidents here if all we have to go on is the media. When Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C., what is he? He is a genuine idiot. He's impolitic, he's uninformed, he's running a chaotic administration where nobody knows what anybody is doing. Whenever they do anything it is disastrous. But the Donald Trump of Washington doesn't exist, because the Donald Trump of Washington is what is reported in the Drive-By Media.

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.