"During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information." - Joseph Goebbels

"One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read." - Rep. Bernie Sanders

"A newspaper is not just for reporting news, it's to get people mad enough to do something about it." - Mark Twain

"A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal.... Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power....And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control." - Walter Cronkite

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels

"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." - Katharine Graham (now deceased owner of the Washington Post) at a 1988 speech at CIA headquarters

"There has never been a war in human history that wasn't based on lies, deceit and deception. The only reason for watching CNN is to witness a fraudulent cover story as it is being unfolded step by step." - Ken McCarthy

"The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." - Aldous Huxley (author of "Brave New World")

"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology." - Michael Parenti

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy