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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.

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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
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
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.

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