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.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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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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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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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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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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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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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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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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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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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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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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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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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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