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Bill Moyers [1934-0] American

Rank: 104
Journalist, Former White House Press Secretary

Billy Don "Bill" Moyers is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years.

Failure, Freedom, Funny, Home, Imagination, Politics, Positive, Teacher

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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.	Home, Positive	101
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.		102
I own and operate a ferocious ego.	Funny	103
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.	Freedom	104
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.	Politics	105
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.		106
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.		107
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.	Failure, Imagination	108
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.		109
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.		110
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.		111
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.		112
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.		113
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.		114
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.		115
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.	Teacher	116
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.		117
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.		118
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.		119
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.		120

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