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I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

Bill Moyers

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creativity Scientist
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Consideration President Resolution Round
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Jobs People Trying

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

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I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

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