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20 quotes by Bill Moyers

Billy Don "Bill" Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and liberal political commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative...
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

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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.

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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.

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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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

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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say... →

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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very... →

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

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

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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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