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.


"The Power of Democracy", speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (7 February 2007), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 92

Bill Moyers Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...