Bill Moyers Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Bill Moyers Quotes and Sayings
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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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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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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.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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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.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
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This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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