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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
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
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
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 is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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Ignorance Party Political
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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
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

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