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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

~Bill Moyers

Topics: Belongs Democracy Exercise Those Who

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: Except Failure Imagination Moral Self-Defense War

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: Deficiencies Despite Faults He Him His Lets Me Work

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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

Topics: Active Commitment Emotion Existential Experience Gone Information Involvement Limited Logically Page Printed Requires Television Then There And Then Very

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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

Topics: Broadcasting First First Time Ideological Instead Journalistic Ordered Programs Public Reasons Time Up Years

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: About Know Less More More And More Our Presidents See

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: Bought Honest Journalists Like Politicians Stay

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: First First Time History Hold Ideology Monopoly Our Power Theology Time Washington

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

~Bill Moyers

Topics: About Beings Care Children Human Human Beings Indifference Really Reflects Society Television

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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

Topics: Democracy Efficient Forms Government Grace Know Long Long Run May Other Prove Run Saving Saving Grace Say Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 6th, 1934

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