Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more…

— Bill Moyers

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

— Bill Moyers

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that…

— Bill Moyers

Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work…

— Bill Moyers

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of…

— Bill Moyers

If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if…

— Bill Moyers

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to…

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen…

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges,…

— Bill Moyers

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

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

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

— Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

— Bill Moyers

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his…

— Bill Moyers