Bill Moyers Quotes

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

In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

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.

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

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

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

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.