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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.

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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
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
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
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

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.

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