Bill Moyers on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Bill Moyers, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Bill Moyers, entry #39773: "People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government."
Attributed to Bill Moyers, entry #212275: "Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country."
4 Quotes by Bill Moyers on Politics
"People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government."
"Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country."
"Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means — what it bestows on us — the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency."
"Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control — a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else."