Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERSThere is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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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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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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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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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.
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Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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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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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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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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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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