But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
BILL MOYERSThe quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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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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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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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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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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