There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERSI really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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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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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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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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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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When 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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What 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.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. 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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We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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The 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.
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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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