Author: Bill Moyers

Quotes

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

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

- Bill Moyers

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

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

- Bill Moyers

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

- Bill Moyers

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

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

- Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Bill Moyers

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.

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

- Bill Moyers

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