What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to...

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone...

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone...

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always...

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always...

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power...

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power...

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has...

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has...

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our...

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our...

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite...

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the...

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what...

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what...

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a...

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.