Quotes by Bill Moyers

About Bill Moyers:

Billy Don "Bill" Moyers is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.
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The 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.

Bill Moyers

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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When 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.

Bill Moyers

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

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What'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.

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Democracy 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.

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I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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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.

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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

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Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

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

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In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Moyers
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornJune 5, 1934
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award; Peabody Award; National Humanities Medal; Emmy Award; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Speech