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. Bill Moyers More Quotes by Bill Moyers More Quotes From Bill Moyers I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come. Bill Moyers best-is-yet-to-come thinking I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity. Bill Moyers reciprocity civilization people Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who'd rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents. Bill Moyers strong law men If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. Bill Moyers bark basements supposed-to-be 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. Bill Moyers life-is facts ideas In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process. Bill Moyers police mind war Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. Bill Moyers protection media political In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people. Bill Moyers party class two Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page. Bill Moyers pages reflection television America is the longest argument in the world. Bill Moyers argument america world Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. Bill Moyers democracy exercise War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. Bill Moyers imagination self war Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive. Bill Moyers alive expression beauty A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? Bill Moyers journalism events different I own and operate a ferocious ego. Bill Moyers ego We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. Bill Moyers care children television The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined. Bill Moyers constitution office father When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith. Bill Moyers effort faith people Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom. Bill Moyers advice inspirational giving On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion. Bill Moyers home weather lying
