There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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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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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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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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What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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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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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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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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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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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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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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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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