We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
BILL MOYERSWe don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
BILL MOYERSWhen a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
BILL MOYERSDavid Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
BILL MOYERSThe fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
BILL MOYERSAmerica is the longest argument in the world.
BILL MOYERSTo the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
BILL MOYERSFreedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
BILL MOYERSI’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
BILL MOYERSCharity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
BILL MOYERSThe 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.
BILL MOYERSIt’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
BILL MOYERSBig money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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.
BILL MOYERSCharity 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 MOYERSHe even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
BILL MOYERSFor the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
BILL MOYERS