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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Bill Moyers

Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
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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Consideration President Resolution Round
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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People Struggle Taken
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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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Jobs People Trying
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
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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Creativity Scientist
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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Democracy Heart Voting
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
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work

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