News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
BILL MOYERSThe thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
-
-
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERS -
Although 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 MOYERS -
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERS -
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
BILL MOYERS -
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.
BILL MOYERS -
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
BILL MOYERS -
America’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 MOYERS -
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
BILL MOYERS -
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
BILL MOYERS -
We 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 MOYERS -
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
BILL MOYERS -
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERS -
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
BILL MOYERS -
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
BILL MOYERS -
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERS






