Quotes by Bill Moyers

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
– Bill Moyers
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
– Bill Moyers
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
– Bill Moyers
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
– Bill Moyers
I think if Kerry were to win this in a tight race, I think there would be an effort to mount a coup, quite frankly.
– Bill Moyers
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
– Bill Moyers
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
– 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
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
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.
– Bill Moyers
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
– Bill Moyers
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
– Bill Moyers
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
– Bill Moyers