Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get… — 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
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written… — 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
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned… — 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
