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

- Bill Moyers
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.

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

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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