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Bill Moyers

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
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
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Class Country Men People
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology

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