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

Quote by Bill Moyers

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

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

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...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our...

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our...

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...

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

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

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

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