Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
BILL MOYERSDavid Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant 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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Our children are being raised by appliances.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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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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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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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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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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