Bill Moyers

“I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”

“In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.”

“The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.”

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

“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.”

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”

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

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.”

“You can't be a journalist if you don't have a sense of outrage.”

“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.”

“A myth is a story that is 'more than true.' The examples are many.”

“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”

“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”

“When you have an administration that is committed to creating a reality of its own, then you have a problem.”

“As a student of history, I also know that there have been times when the wrong side won.”

“The printed page is a battlefield, and the reporters are the shock troops.”

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”