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Bill Moyers

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
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
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
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
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
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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Fire House Years
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying

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