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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

Bill Moyers

The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Believe People Thinking
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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Jobs People Trying
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
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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People Pills President
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
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
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings

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