Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
BILL MOYERSFreedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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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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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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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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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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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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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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