Bill Moyers Quotes

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I've always thought that the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. - Bill Moyers quote.
I've always thought that the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing.
— Bill Moyers

America politics

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers quote.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
— Bill Moyers

politics idealist

No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism. - Bill Moyers quote.
No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.
— Bill Moyers The Society of Professional Journalists

criticism patriotism

One of my mentors told me that "news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity." - Bill Moyers quote.
One of my mentors told me that "news is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity."
— Bill Moyers Moyers on Democracy

news

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 quote.
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 in Newsweek

democracy

It's the ability to see things a new way, and from that insight to produce something that didn't exist before—something original.  It sometimes means piercing the mundane to find the marvelous—or looking beyond the marvelous to find the mundane. - Bill Moyers quote.
It's the ability to see things a new way, and from that insight to produce something that didn't exist before—something original.  It sometimes means piercing the mundane to find the marvelous—or looking beyond the marvelous to find the mundane.
— Bill Moyers The Writer

creativity

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.  And politics is the bow of idealism.
— Bill Moyers in Time

politics