Bill Moyers Quotes
20 Bill Moyers quotes:
"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."
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"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
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"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
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"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."
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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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"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."
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"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
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"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
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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."
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"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought."
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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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"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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"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."
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"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."
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"Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page."
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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."
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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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"I own and operate a ferocious ego."
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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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