Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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!
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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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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Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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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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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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