The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
BILL MOYERSTheology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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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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When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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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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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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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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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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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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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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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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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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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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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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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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