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America is the longest argument in the world.

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The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
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
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician

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