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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.

Bill Moyers

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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might Pay Strength
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
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
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
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching

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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