Bill Moyers Quotes

• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Quality, Journalism

• 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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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Romance

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happens

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Naturally, Right

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Know, More

• We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Children, Society

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

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  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Defense

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honest

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in More, Information

• Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Freedom

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

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Strangers

• I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Faults

• I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ego

• Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Life

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

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  Topics in History

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Exercise

• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creativity

• As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers, Wonderful

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Birth:	5th June, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Bill D. Moyers is an American journalist and public 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.

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