I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
BILL MOYERSAmerica is the longest argument in the world.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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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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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Here 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.
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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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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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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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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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