Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
BILL MOYERSThe most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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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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It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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