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.
BILL MOYERSTheology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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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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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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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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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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 who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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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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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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