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"The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that."
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"In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims."
Time
"If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people."
Power
"The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned."
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"As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed."
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"The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another."
People
"If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value."
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"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."
People
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job."
People
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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