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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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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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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Government Long Running
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
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
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
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
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
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
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
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
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Believe Couple Heart
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection

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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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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