BILL MOYERS

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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.

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

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

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.

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

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

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.

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

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

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.

Other than the war in Iraq the Katrina disaster, the deficit, the CIA leak, torture, stopping stem cell research, homeland security, global warming and undercutting science, we've yet to really feel the negative effects of the George W. Bush administration

Our society makes profit out of violence

So many in the press turn gossip into gasoline and keep pouring it on the fire.

“Never again” doesn’t reckon with money’s ability to erase memory.

Democracy is a babel of competing propagandas.

[Referring to George W. Bush:] He lacks the courage of his convictions because he lacks convictions.