Guests: Jay-Z, recording artist; Bill Moyers, journalist

On Being on Top of the Rap Game

It's entertainment at the end of the day -- but once you draw on a true emotion, I think the integrity of that will carry you through to now.  Jay-Z

When people can do something so well, they're never really going to retire.  Bill Maher

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.  Jay-Z

I probably could beat up all the rappers.  Jay-Z

On the Creative Process

I really made [my first] album to impress my friends.  Jay-Z

The first 'Blueprint' album I made was in three days. Jay-Z

I still go about making my music as an album. It can take me months just to sequence a song.  Jay-Z

On Kanye West

I think 'Jesus Walk' is by far the greatest song [Kanye West] wrote. They play 'Jesus Walks' in the club.  Jay-Z

On Healthcare

I find it hard to understand why this country has not embraced the notion of healthcare as a common human need to which everyone should have access regardless of their economic resources.  Bill Moyers

[The Democratic Party] has told its progressives, who are the most outspoken champions of healthcare reform, to sit down and shut up.  Bill Moyers

You have to lose sometimes in order to win.  Bill Moyers

Half a loaf doesn't feed the crowd.  Bill Moyers

Universal healthcare for every citizen, irrespective of your resources, is representative of a deeply moral society.  Bill Moyers

I think...too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed.  Bill Moyers

On the President

Great presidents have the power to move people with words, and then by making the choices that back up those words.  Bill Moyers

I think there's a fear that Barack Obama will become the Grover Cleveland of this era.  Bill Moyers

I think it would be a tragedy beyond description for this young, bright, exciting president to be drawn into an endless war in the same way that the last young, bright, exciting president was drawn into -- intervened in -- Vietnam.  Bill Moyers

On Afghanistan

You know, we're not good at building other nations. We're hardly good at building our nation.  Bill Moyers

On the State of the Union

We are a very crippled giant suffering from self-inflicted wounds that, if we do not treat and heal, will, in fact, bring us to our knees and ultimately to our doom. I really do believe that. And I don't want that to happen.  Bill Moyers