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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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...

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.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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...

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...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

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.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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...

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...

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and...

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and...

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...

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...

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...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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...

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

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.