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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Bill Moyers

They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Hands Heart Over
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
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
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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
What’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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Causes Doe Fighting
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media

I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

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