Bill Moyers

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

— Bill Moyers

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

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There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

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I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror…

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In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

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When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And…

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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a…

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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe…

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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands…

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The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk…

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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most…

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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get…

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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy…

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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a…

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I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that…

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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made…

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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.…

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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing…

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In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party…

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The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would…

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At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.

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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

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I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

— Bill Moyers

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

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“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

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I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

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I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and…

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The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of…

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Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew,…

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Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't…

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Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep…

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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything,…

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They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your…

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Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers…

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