Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
BILL MOYERSRockefeller 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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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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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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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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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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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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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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