"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"