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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
The delusional is no longer marginal.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Our children are being raised by appliances.
America is the longest argument in the world.
Democracy works when people claim it as their own
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.
It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.
There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.