12 Quotes & Sayings By Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers began his television career on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and went on to be America's first public television journalist and the first vice president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Moyers then became a PBS news commentator, anchoring PBS' award-winning series Bill Moyers Journal. He is the author of many books, including The Language of Life: An Exploration of Values, Faith and Hope as well as The Way I See It.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our...
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Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. Bill Moyers
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been...
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Freedom 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 Moyers
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In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness Bill Moyers
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. Bill Moyers
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. Bill Moyers
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. Bill Moyers
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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. Bill Moyers
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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. Bill Moyers
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I own and operate a ferocious ego. Bill Moyers
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Bill Moyers
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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 that it isn't. Bill Moyers