Quotes About Manipulation

If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.

Gaslighting only goes so far. This is a lesson many a politician has learned the hard way.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Politicians are better liars than writers.