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Bill Moyers

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
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
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
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

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