Bill Moyers Quotes

• Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

  Bill Moyers

  Party, Ignorance, Political

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

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  Media, Radio, Empires

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• 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

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• Si el perro guardián no ladra, ¿cómo sabes que hay un ladrón en el sótano? Y se supone que la prensa es un perro guardián.

  Bill Moyers

  Bark, Basements, Supposed To Be

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Beach, Hero

  "FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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• People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

  Bill Moyers

  Creer, Gobierno, Gente

  "Bill Moyers' View Of Contemporary America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 5, 2008.

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• La calidad de la democracia y la calidad del periodismo están profundamente entrelazadas.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Democracy, Quality

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Nuestro sistema mediático y político se ha convertido en una estafa de protección mutua.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Political, Protection

  "On Murdoch" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2007.

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• There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

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  Struggle, Heart, Independent

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• The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

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  Class, Political, Favors

  Fuente: progressive.org

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

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  Honest, Politician, Journalist

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• Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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  Dream, Freedom, Tyrants

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• Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

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  Children, Long, People

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

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  Children, Law, Safety

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• A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .

  Bill Moyers

  Correr, Creer, Ojo

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• Un pueblo inconsciente, un pueblo adoctrinado, un pueblo alimentado sólo con información y opiniones partidistas que confirman sus propios prejuicios, un pueblo convertido en obeso mórbido de mente y espíritu por la comida basura de la propaganda está menos inclinado a oponer resistencia, a hacer preguntas y a ser escéptico. Y del mismo modo que una democracia puede morir por demasiadas mentiras, ese tipo de ortodoxia también puede matarnos.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Fighting, Media

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.218, Anchor

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• Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

  Bill Moyers

  Block, Long, Democracy

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• Tenemos que alimentar el espíritu del periodismo independiente en este país, o no salvaremos al capitalismo de sus propios excesos, ni a la democracia de su propia inercia.

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  Country, Independent, Democracy

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• Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.

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  Father, Mean, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 17, 2008.

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• 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

  Ideas, Facts, Life Is

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• 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.

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  Cutting, America, One Direction

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• The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.

  Bill Moyers

  Class, Political, Distribution Of Wealth

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

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  Believe, Texas, People

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• I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

  Bill Moyers

  Civilization, People, Reciprocity

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

  Bill Moyers

  Hate, Mirrors, Names

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