Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names. - Randal Marlin

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.