I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
BILL MOYERSIn 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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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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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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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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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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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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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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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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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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