{"author":"Bill Moyers","author_id":"Bill+Moyers","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["empowerment","freedom","ownership"],"id":4057,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["constitution","defense","democracy","inspirational","romance","wisdom"],"id":9606,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["day","home","universe "],"id":53757,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["great","ideas","idealism "],"id":92260,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["community","democracy","librarianship","libraries","progressivism"],"id":186686,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["thought","student","teachers "],"id":191762,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["failure","imagination","moral "],"id":252115,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["forgive","love","marriage"],"id":254620,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["commitment","television","page "],"id":291875,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"},{"text":"I own and operate a ferocious ego.","author":"Bill Moyers","tags":["ego","own","operate "],"id":324964,"author_id":"Bill+Moyers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}