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 MOYERSBarack 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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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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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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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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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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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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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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