Latest Bill Moyers Quotes from Interviews

• La lucha de la gente corriente por una vida digna, por la seguridad, es tan antigua como la república, pero ha adquirido un cariz nuevo y urgente. En lugar de una prosperidad compartida, nuestro sistema político ha generado una economía en la que el ganador se lo lleva todo.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Taken, People

  "Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 1, 2012.

• The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

  Bill Moyers

  Election, American History

• President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens to veto the Senate action. Keep in mind that when the public was asked to submit comments to the FCC about consolidation, only one percent approved it. The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, House, Listening

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

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  País, Guerra, Gente

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose in the world, but you can't always be sure it does. You do it because there's a story to be told. 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

  Jobs, Impact, People

  Fuente: progressive.org

• The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."

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  Running, War, Believe

  Fuente: progressive.org

• When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

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  Thinking, Games, Class

  Fuente: progressive.org

• It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

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  Thinking, People, Grassroots

  Fuente: progressive.org

• The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it's "important" that we reduce the influence of money. Yet 91 percent think it's "not likely" that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done.

  Bill Moyers

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

  Fuente: progressive.org

• He vivido lo suficiente para ver el triunfo de fanáticos y absolutistas, para ver cómo el dinero se traga la política, para presenciar el ascenso del Estado corporativo. Ver cómo el partido de los trabajadores y los pobres se convierte en adulador del capitalismo de amiguetes. Ver cómo la unión de Iglesia y Estado vuelve a estar de moda. Presenciar la unión de las noticias y el entretenimiento. Ver a la gente corriente arrojada por la borda mientras los piratas y depredadores de Wall Street se apoderaban del barco del Estado. No fui a la deriva; me moví a la izquierda con sólo quedarme quieto.

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  Wall, Party, Long

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

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  Adults, Journalism, Continuing

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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.

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  Party, Ignorance, Political

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

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  Greed, Democracy, Economy

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Lyndon Johnson fue trece de los hombres más interesantes y difíciles que he conocido. Podía ser tan cortés como grosero, tan magnánimo como malicioso, a veces orgulloso y sensible, a veces paranoico y oscuramente incómodo consigo mismo. Freud se lo habría pasado en grande con él.

  Bill Moyers

  Men, Interesting, Fields

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Now Barack Obama, who campaigned for transparency, is the President defending secret negotiations on new trade agreements that are largely being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyists. He would give corporations the key to the treasury while he gets the authority to fast track another hammering of working people and the environment. Yet the only people who get a real tongue-lashing from this President's White House are progressives around town who dare to call him on the carpet for abandoning his promises.

  Bill Moyers

  Real, Agreement, White

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Fate, Doors

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

  Bill Moyers

  Creer, Ganar, Pensar

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

  Bill Moyers

  People, Faces, Determined

  Fuente: progressive.org

• When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Believe, Heart

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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, Men, Law

  Fuente: progressive.org

• There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

  Bill Moyers

  People, President, Pills

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Radio, Empires

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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

• Nuestra economía es una plantación dirigida por los aristócratas -los directores generales, los fondos de cobertura, las empresas de capital riesgo-, mientras que los trabajadores del campo se quedan con las sobras.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Hands, Fields

  Fuente: progressive.org

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Class, Political, Favors

  Fuente: progressive.org

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