Quotes from Todd Gitlin

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

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.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact...

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.

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

My business is the analytical framework.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.