When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Minow campaigned for President John F. Even when he was FCC Chair he worried about the increasing export of Hollywood programming overseas and the impact it would have on perceptions of the United States among citizens in other countries. He later became assistant counsel to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson (1952–1953) worked for Stevenson's two presidential campaigns (1952 and 1956) and then was a partner in the law firm Stevenson Rifkind & Wirtz (1955–1961).

Minow has been active in Democratic party politics. Newton Norman Minow (born January 17 1926) is an American attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.