Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
BILL MOYERSAs a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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