Quotes from Bill Moyers

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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.

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

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.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

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

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

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

At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.

Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

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

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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.

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

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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

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.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

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.