19 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:36:25.764 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.
- There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT and T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
- What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of transactions and investments...
- We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.
- The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.
- And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war, or famine, oppression or brutality.
- One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock.
- All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
- And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
- Why me?
- Because you're on television, dummy.
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