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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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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
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 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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
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
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
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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Creativity Scientist
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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Government Long Running

I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

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