Bill Moyers's Quotes
Born: 1934-06-06
Profession: Journalist
Nation: American
Biography of Bill Moyers
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
Tags: America, Democracy, PoliticalThere are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
Tags: Bought, Honest, StayCreativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Tags: Creativity, Marvelous, MundaneFor the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Tags: History, Power, TimeOur very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Tags: Ethics, Lives, StrangersThe printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
Tags: Emotion, Experience, GoneWhat's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Tags: Fight, Good, StandWhen I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
Tags: Home, Learn, UniverseAs a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Tags: Learned, Teacher, ThoughtI work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
Tags: Faults, Him, WorkIdeas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Tags: Great, Ideas, PoliticsThis is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
Tags: Public, Reasons, TimeWe don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Tags: Care, Children, SocietyWe see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
Tags: Less, PresidentsDemocracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
Tags: Democracy, Government, May