…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
BILL MOYERSWhen a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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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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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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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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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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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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