An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
BILL MOYERSIn 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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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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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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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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