Jedediah Bila Quotes

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.

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

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

Hollywood ... proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic d’marche.

Politics is a matter of communications.

Japan is running an ongoing political campaign in America as if it were a third major party.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

[Ronald Reagan] turned the White House into a soft focus TV studio.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The 1934 Republican response to the Upton Sinclair campaign for California Governor marked a stunning advance in the art of public relations, in which advertising men now believed they could sell or destroy political candidates as they sold one brand of soap and defamed its competitor. In another twenty years, these techniques would spread East, achieve a new refinement, and begin to dominate the politics of the nation.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

The media is comparable to government--probably passes government in raw power

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is

There is interposed between the voter and hid final judgment the whole mechanism of modern publicity. The final judgment is not the result of direct acquaintance; it is the result of the news reports, the advertising, the oratory, the elusive rumors which are the modern substitute for direct acquaintance.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

In the White House, I had influence. At Breitbart, I had power.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.