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We 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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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
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
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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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Bark Basements Supposed
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
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
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
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
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War

We 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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We 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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