Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. — Bill Moyers Copy Share
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers Copy Share
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
