Bill Moyers

Our children are being raised by appliances.

— Bill Moyers

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

— Bill Moyers

America is the longest argument in the world.

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I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

— Bill Moyers

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

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If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be…

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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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We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

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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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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no…

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...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

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A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

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Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the…

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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…

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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…

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Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls…

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The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of…

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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war…

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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band…

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Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has…

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But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise…

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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about…

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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,…

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Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if…

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When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter…

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The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more…

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Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written…

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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was…

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Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very…

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“The question, then, is not about changing people; it's about reaching people. I'm not speaking simply of better information, a sharper and…

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Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

— Bill Moyers

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

— Bill Moyers