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"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

#Has Beens #Ordinary #Share

"I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."

--- Bill Moyers

#I Can #Speak #Believe

"People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government."

--- Bill Moyers

#People #Don't Believe #Believe

"Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps."

--- Bill Moyers

#Running #Hands #Fields

"We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out."

--- Bill Moyers

#Knows #Years #Political

"The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants."

--- Bill Moyers

#Want #War #Appetite

"Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table."

--- Bill Moyers

#Offers #Depends #Commitment

"Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people."

--- Bill Moyers

#People #Kind #War

"America is the longest argument in the world."

--- Bill Moyers

#World #Argument #America

"Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor."

--- Bill Moyers

#Mark #Democracy #Veins

"We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it."

--- Bill Moyers

#Comfortable #Reality #Lying

"Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

--- Bill Moyers

#Piercings #Creativity #Scientist

"The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment."

--- Bill Moyers

#Chance #Important #Missing

"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

#People #Way #Stories

"Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency."

--- Bill Moyers

#People #Ideas #Problem

"The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back."

--- Bill Moyers

#Today #Rounds #Media

"Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today."

--- Bill Moyers

#Today #Mind #Age

"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

#Has Beens #Known #Social

"The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined."

--- Bill Moyers

#Journalism #Media #Democracy

"A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news."

--- Bill Moyers

#Sides #Conventional #Republican

"I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works."

--- Bill Moyers

#World #Believe #Sacred

"I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses."

--- Bill Moyers

#Pay #Might #Currents

"The delusional is no longer marginal."

--- Bill Moyers

#Delusional

"These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels."

--- Bill Moyers

#Civilized Society #Cartels #Labor

"I own and operate a ferocious ego."

--- Bill Moyers

#Ego

"In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process."

--- Bill Moyers

#Mind Set #Eliminating #Tracking

"Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents."

--- Bill Moyers

#Tvs #Law #Men

"When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept."

--- Bill Moyers

#Want #Break #Months

"It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place."

--- Bill Moyers

#People #I Can #Stories

"Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static."

--- Bill Moyers

#Facts #Ideas #Life Is

"Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him."

--- Bill Moyers

#Fields #Mets #Difficult

"If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty."

--- Bill Moyers

#Ifs #Believe #Opinion

"The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today."

--- Bill Moyers

#Today #Dangerous #Government

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