There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
BILL MOYERSThere’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
BILL MOYERSThose rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
BILL MOYERSWhat we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
BILL MOYERSAmerica’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.
BILL MOYERSWe have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
BILL MOYERSThere are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERSThe left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
BILL MOYERSIn uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
BILL MOYERSHyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERSThe delusional is no longer marginal.
BILL MOYERSI’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
BILL MOYERSAlthough our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
BILL MOYERSHow do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
BILL MOYERSWhen ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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