Top 20 Quotes by Bill Moyers

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

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

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

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.