Bill Moyers Democracy Quotations

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own

I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

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

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.