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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Bill Moyers

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
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
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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Comfort Lying Reality
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
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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Facts May Prepared
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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Democracy Mark Veins
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
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.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity

I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

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