We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating new realities.. We're history's actors.. And you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Ron Suskind
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
faith hope
Other administrations ceded to fact, and saw the benefit - the value - to meaningful public dialogue based on fact. They understood that was one of their obligations, to engage with people who were there to ask pointed and pertinent questions and demand answers to them. They understood that's how it worked and that that was the precedent. This administration has said, 'What does that have to do with me'?
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There are memos,.. One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'
iraq
Haven't we already given money to rich people.. Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?
money people giving rich
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We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
reality act create
I am certain O'Neill never had it
From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country. And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it -- the president saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'
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He got the documents from lawyers at the Treasury Department when he made a request after he left.
lawyers made left
A carefully vetted group of more than 240 executives, economists, and even a few labor leaders was being assembled,.. They'd seem diverse and independent to the untrained eye. In fact, nearly every one would be a Bush supporter and many were major fundraisers. Attendance was, in a way, a reward for support.
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To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
strategy people power
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
people truth
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
the-public war
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
truth
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
government system
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