Bill Moyers Quotes (9 quotations)
1. A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? I consider myself a fortunate man to have a forum for my curiosity. - Bill Moyers
2. A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. - Bill Moyers
3. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. - Bill Moyers
4. Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. - Bill Moyers
5. I own and operate a ferocious ego. - Bill Moyers
6. I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. - Bill Moyers
7. Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
8. The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone. - Bill Moyers
9. 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. - Bill Moyers
2. A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. - Bill Moyers
3. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. - Bill Moyers
4. Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. - Bill Moyers
5. I own and operate a ferocious ego. - Bill Moyers
6. I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. - Bill Moyers
7. Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
8. The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone. - Bill Moyers
9. 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. - Bill Moyers
