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

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In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgive...

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

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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has ...

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

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the on...

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I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you too...

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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this univers...

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

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Bill Moyers

Former White House Press Secretary

Born: 1934-06-05

Died: N/A

Bill Moyers (born Billy Don; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary under the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967-1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.More