Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Joe McGinniss

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Joe McGinniss.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Joe McGinniss

Joseph Ralph McGinniss Sr. was an American non-fiction writer and novelist.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him. — © Joe McGinniss
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.
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