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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.

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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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
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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Determined Faces People
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
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
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
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
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.

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