Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
BILL MOYERSOur media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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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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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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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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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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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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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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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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