14 Quotes by Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 (in 1957), space activities have created an orbital debris environment that poses increasing impact risks to existing space systems, including human space flight and robotic missions.

If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there.

Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.

Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.

In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.