2005 Quote by 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 a watchdog.

— Bill Moyers

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

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

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 is not…

— 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 I think…

— 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 truth loose…

— 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 dominate what…

— 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 with nuts…

— Bill Moyers

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

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