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I understand the process of politics and the game of television. -- John Sununu
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. -- Demetri Martin
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. -- Marilyn Manson
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. -- Hannah Simone
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious. -- Norm MacDonald
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. -- Peter Jennings
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. -- Robert Teeter
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. -- Van Morrison
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me. -- Walter F. Mondale
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. -- Ben Edwards
I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him. -- Peter Capaldi
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. -- Kenneth Koch
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options. -- J. C. Watts
One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television. -- Ed Rollins
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too. -- Patti Smith
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. -- Tony Campolo
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter. -- William Devane
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window. -- Bill Viola
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. -- Al Franken
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. -- Jack Germond
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. -- Molly Ivins
What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television. -- Kevin Spacey

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