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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.

Bill Moyers

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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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
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 Pills President
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
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
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People

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