Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.
Bill Moyers
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
Journalist
Hugo
Oklahoma
Billy Don Moyers
Billy Moyers
Debate
Watching
Limits
Loved
Term
Brutus
House
Caesar
Apparent
Afternoon
More quotes by Bill Moyers
I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.
Bill Moyers
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
Bill Moyers
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
America is the longest argument in the world.
Bill Moyers
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
Bill Moyers
There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
Bill Moyers
I take We, the People seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
Bill Moyers
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Bill Moyers
I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
Bill Moyers
When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.
Bill Moyers
But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.
Bill Moyers
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
Bill Moyers
The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
Bill Moyers
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
Bill Moyers
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Bill Moyers
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
Bill Moyers
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.
Bill Moyers
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
Bill Moyers
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.
Bill Moyers
Democracy doesn't begin at the top it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.
Bill Moyers