The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
BILL MOYERSThe quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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 MOYERSI really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
BILL MOYERSThey’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
BILL MOYERSA people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
BILL MOYERSOur children are being raised by appliances.
BILL MOYERSI’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
BILL MOYERSPlutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERSTo the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
BILL MOYERSPeople who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
BILL MOYERSWe have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
BILL MOYERSDavid 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.
BILL MOYERSWhen ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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 MOYERSThere are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERSDemocracy 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