Bill Moyers

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

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

“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....”

“When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some...”

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

“I own and operate a ferocious ego.”

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

“Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.”