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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Bill Moyers

If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
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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Determined Faces People
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
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
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
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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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
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
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
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

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