When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And… — 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
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. — 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
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing… — 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
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
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
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.” — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
