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1. "I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible." ~ Todd Gitlin
2. "Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't." ~ Todd Gitlin
3. "Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience." ~ Todd Gitlin
4. "Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent." ~ Todd Gitlin
5. "Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state." ~ Todd Gitlin
6. "The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers." ~ Todd Gitlin
7. "There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life." ~ Todd Gitlin
8. "A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks." ~ Todd Gitlin
9. "Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions." ~ Todd Gitlin
10. "Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given." ~ Todd Gitlin
11. "My business is the analytical framework." ~ Todd Gitlin
12. "So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids." ~ Todd Gitlin
13. "The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy." ~ Todd Gitlin
14. "The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period." ~ Todd Gitlin
15. "Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history." ~ Todd Gitlin
16. "We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery." ~ Todd Gitlin
17. "My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies." ~ Todd Gitlin

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