Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
BILL MOYERSAs a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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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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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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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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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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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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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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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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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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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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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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