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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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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
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
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Class Country Men People
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
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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Country Cutting Direction One
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Consideration President Resolution Round
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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People Pills President
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men

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