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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.

Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
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
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
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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Believe Media Trust
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
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
The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Believe People Thinking
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching

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