Bill Moyers quotes - page 2

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. (Bill Moyers)
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. View quote
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. View quote
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. View quote
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No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism. View quote
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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix. View quote
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A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. View quote
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As every volunteer testifies, the Peace Corps is more than a program or mission. It is a way of being in the world. This is a conservative notion because it holds dear the ground of one's own being - the culture and customs that gave meaning to a particular life. But it is a liberal notion for respecting the ground revered by others. View quote
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There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. (Bill Moyers)
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else. View quote
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. View quote
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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. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience. View quote
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism Where else can you delve into the life of our times. View quote
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A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. View quote
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. View quote
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. 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. View quote
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Plutocracy is not an American word but it's become an American phenomenon. View quote
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Events enlarged his embrace to a wholly new idea of nation - the United States of America. View quote
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Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. (Bill Moyers)
We struggle today with the imperative of a new patriotism and citizenship. The Peace Corps has been showing us the way, and the volunteers and staff whom we honor this morning are the vanguard of that journey. View quote
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Terms like "liberty" and "individual freedom" invoked by generations of Americans who battled to widen the 1787 promise to "promote the general welfare" have been perverted to create a government primarily dedicated to the state and the political class that runs it. View quote
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For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. View quote
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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. View quote
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