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Bill Moyers

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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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Hands Heart Over
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
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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Mind Police Tracking War
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television

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