You do it because there’s a story to be told. 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.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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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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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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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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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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When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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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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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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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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