Linda Ellerbee Quotes

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

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

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

Nobody is strong-minded around a President…

Let them hate as long as they fear.

I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain little respect.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and schools.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.