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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers

There is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C. — Bill Moyers

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive. — Bill Moyers

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. — Bill Moyers

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. — Bill Moyers

People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government. — Bill Moyers

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. — Bill Moyers

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. — Bill Moyers

The city was waking up to another day. I hadn't slept or changed my clothes in six days. — William Moyers

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it. — Bill Moyers

The delusional is no longer marginal. — Bill Moyers

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. — Bill Moyers

The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them. — William Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. — Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. — Bill Moyers

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. — Bill Moyers

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it. — William Moyers

I own and operate a ferocious ego. — Bill Moyers

America is the longest argument in the world. — Bill Moyers

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness — Bill Moyers

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers

Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country. — Bill Moyers

Our children are being raised by appliances. — Bill Moyers

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. — Bill Moyers

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. — Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own — Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people. — Bill Moyers

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. — Bill Moyers

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. — Bill Moyers

If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology. — Joseph Campbell

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. — Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers has said, "The antidote, the only antidote, to the power of organized money in Washington is the power of organized people."10 — Parker J. Palmer

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. — Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers is everything I never aspire to be: Calm, Thoughtful, and Informative. — Stephen Colbert

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one — Bill Moyers

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out. — Bill Moyers

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. — Bill Moyers

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss? — Bill Moyers

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. — Bill Moyers

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. — Bill Moyers

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state? — Bill Moyers

I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings. — Bill Moyers

secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of — Bill Moyers

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers

Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen. — Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. — Bill Moyers

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. — Bill Moyers

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar. — Bill Moyers

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom. — Bill Moyers

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers

Democracy works when people claim it as their own — Bill Moyers