Television Politics Quotes

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in the televised presidential debate.

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

Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.

On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.