"I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens."

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“We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.”

“With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy,tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random,our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.”

“Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means,we would eliminate it.”

“All the European democracies have far higher election turnouts than ours, and all of them provide their candidates with extensive free airtime. In fact, of all the major nations worldwide that profess to have democracies, only seven — just seven — do not offer free time. These are Ecuador, Honduras, Malaysia, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States of America. Does it make us proud to be on such a list?”

“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”

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