…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
BILL MOYERSBig money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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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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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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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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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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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.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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