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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
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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Determined Faces People
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creativity Scientist
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
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
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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Reality Thinking Views

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