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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers

Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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Another Circumstances Conspiracy Day International Work
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
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
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul

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