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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the

The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

Bill Moyers
Country, Beach, Hero
"FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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.

Bill Moyers
Country, Independent, Democracy

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.

Bill Moyers
Loyalty, Country, Passion

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

Bill Moyers
Country, Freedom, Responsibility
"For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 21, 2008.

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

Bill Moyers
Country, Mean, Government
Bill Moyers (2013). “Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times”, p.71, The New Press

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.

Bill Moyers
Country, War, People
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