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.
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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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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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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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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You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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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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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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