"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control — 'indoctrination,' we might say — exercised through the mass media."

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

"The United States has a long history of supporting dictators and authoritarian regimes."

"There are two conceptions of democracy. One is that the public should be able to participate, and the other is that the public should be spectators."

"There are very few people who are going to make it through life without having some kind of interaction with the criminal justice system."