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 MOYERSBarack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
BILL MOYERSThis “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.
BILL MOYERSWar, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
BILL MOYERSTelevision is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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 MOYERSI take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
BILL MOYERSAmerica is the longest argument in the world.
BILL MOYERSCreativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
BILL MOYERSThe delusional is no longer marginal.
BILL MOYERSThe President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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 MOYERSHere is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
BILL MOYERSHow can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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 MOYERSUnless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERS