Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
BILL MOYERSThe thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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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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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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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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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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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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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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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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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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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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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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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