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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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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
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
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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Believe Thinking Winning
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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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Blue Fighting Nuts
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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Another Circumstances Conspiracy Day International Work
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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Baptists Culture Religious
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

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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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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