Who is Bill Moyers

1. He asks the questions that need to be asked about the important issues of the day

2. He shares great guests who are both informative and informed

3. He is one of a rare breed today -- a true and thoughtful journalist who offers thought-provoking and in-depth stories in a horse-race, sound-byte dominated media

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people."

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

"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."

"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."

"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."

"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."

"Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility."

"Every filmmaker, every journalist has to be arrogant. You have to say "I have the truth, you got to pay attention, you got to listen.""

"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality -- one nation, indivisible -- or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others."

"I own and operate a ferocious ego."

"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."

"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life."

"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it -- as if the cause depends on you, because it does."

"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of"

"Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page."

"Democracy belongs to those who exercise it."

"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians -- they stay bought."

"When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith."

"We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience."

"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."

"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."

"New ages don't arrive overnight, or without "blood, sweat, and tears.""

"We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do."

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

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

"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress ."

"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."

"He believed the long and great struggle of America was the struggle to ensure that the rewards of a free society went to everybody and not just to the top."

"John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Paul Revere and Thomas Paine of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril."

"The country is not yet a theocracy but the Republican Party is,"

"We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable."

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