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

Quote by Bill Moyers

Topics: Television Quotes

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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