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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!

Bill Moyers

Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
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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Believe Media Trust
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
BILL MOYERS

Citizen Ordinary Struggle
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
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.
BILL MOYERS

Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
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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Consideration President Resolution Round

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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