There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
BILL MOYERSWhat’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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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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