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

Quote by Bill Moyers

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

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

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

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

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and...

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and...

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

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

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

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has...

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has...

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing...

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

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

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for...

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for...

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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

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

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a...

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a...

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.