Bill Moyers Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Claims

  "Bill Moyers Journal". Last episode, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Cutting, America, One Direction

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Long, People

• Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

  Bill Moyers

  Dream, Fighting, Blood

• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Democracy, Quality

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

• Democracy works when people claim it as their own

  Bill Moyers

  People, Democracy, Claims

• 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

  Source: progressive.org

• How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

  Bill Moyers

  Political, Soul, Democracy

• Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, Voting, Democracy

• You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Long, People, Democracy

• The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience

  Bill Moyers

  God, Powerful, Healing

• An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Fighting, Media

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

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

  Bill Moyers

  Block, Long, Democracy

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Thinking, Games, Class

  Source: progressive.org

• When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

  Bill Moyers

  Library, Democracy, Matter

• 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

  Running, Believe, Eye

• But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Differences, Justice, Democracy

  "The Great American Class War" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.

• I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

  Bill Moyers

  Trust, Believe, Media

• 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Government, Long

• We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Independent, Democracy

• Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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  Exercise, Democracy

• Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

  Bill Moyers

  Mean, Revolutionary Ideas, Issues

  "The Power of Democracy". Speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on February 07, 2007. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 92, 2008.

• Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Veins, Mark

  "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

• The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.

  Bill Moyers

  Independent, Fighting, Missing

  Source: 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.

  Bill Moyers

  Greed, Democracy, Economy

  Source: progressive.org

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