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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
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
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
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
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
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 really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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
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
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
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
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism

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