Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
BILL MOYERSBarack 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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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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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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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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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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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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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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