Author: Bill Moyers

Quotes

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

- Bill Moyers

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

- Bill Moyers

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

- 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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Bill Moyers

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