Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERSWe now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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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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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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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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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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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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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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