Chevy Chase Quotes

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

This [the advent of radio] was the first time in the history of mankind that people in different places heard the same thing at the same time.

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

Radio enables people to hear all evil, television enables them to see all evil, and the jet plane enables them to go off and do all evil.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I'm psyched-up when I do radio. I can reach hundreds of thousands of people in a market. And way psyched-up when I'm on television. For people not to take it seriously is foolish.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Television has power.