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Bill Moyers
American
Journalist
About the author
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Children
#Society
#Television
#Care
#Indifference
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Public
#Years
#First
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.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Commitment
#Experience
#Information
#Television
#Emotion
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Freedom
#Dream
#Secrecy
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#People
#Strangers
#Ethics
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Thought
#Teachers
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#War
#Imagination
#Failure
#Self
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.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Democracy
#Tax
#America
#Benefits
#Tax cuts
#Corporate
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Ideas
#Politics
#Idealism
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Creativity
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Democracy
#Exercise
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.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#May
#Democracy
#Government
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Time
#First
#Power
#Ideology
#History
#Washington
#Theology
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Life
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Ego
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Work
#Faults
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Politicians
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.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Day
#Home
#Universe
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.
Bill Moyers,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Fight
#Cause