Quotes from Bill Moyers

A free press is one where it's ok to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

When language fails, violence becomes a language.

Corporations determine our political choices, Barber writes, citing studies that babies as young as six months can form mental images of corporate logos that are then established as brand loyalty by the age of two.

I worry that my own business... helps to make this an anxious age of agitated amnesiacs... We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little about the last sixty years.

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

patients benefit measurably when their medical treatment includes attention to their emotional needs.

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.

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.

Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

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

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.

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.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.