Bill Moyers

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. ”

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. ”