Informed Democracy Quotes

#1. But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes.

Pepi Leistyna

#3. Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

#4. Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Brad Pitt

#5. The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

Robert David Steele

#6. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.

Brad Pitt

#7. Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

#8. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.

Al Gore

#9. We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Helen Thomas

#10. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

#11. Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Elizabeth Bishop

#12. Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Jacques Barzun

#13. Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#14. I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

George Lucas

#15. You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

Helen Thomas

#16. An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Nelson Mandela

#17. Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Brad Henry

#18. Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.

Rose Pastor Stokes

#19. Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

#20. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#22. An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Melissa Bean

#24. Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest.

Kenneth Eade

#25. The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Paul Collier

#27. A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

Dahr Jamail

#29. For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Rory Stewart

#30. The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

Brad Pitt

#31. If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Jim Lehrer

#32. Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

Nancy Snow