Quotes About An Informed Public

#1. I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.

Baruch Halpern

#2. They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Lester Bowie

#3. 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

#4. My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.

Philip Kitcher

#5. What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few ... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#6. 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

#7. I want people to see the truth ... regardless of who they are ...
because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a
public.

Chelsea Manning

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

Scott Rigell

#11. I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

Eric Alterman

#13. So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. Humans are still monsters. Always will be.

Cameron Jace

#15. A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

Haile Selassie

#16. We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

#17. As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#18. It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

David Lilienthal

#19. We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

David Miliband

#20. Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Pat Mitchell

#21. An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Nancy Snow

#23. Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.

David Nelson

#24. We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

Ma Jun

#25. I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

Lindi Ortega

#26. 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

#27. The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.

Peter Boettke

#28. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In

Marian Walsh

#29. Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Brad Pitt

#31. It's not just about private time. It's the atmosphere, the music and the lighting. It's about doing something in public you know you shouldn't and doing it anyway for the thrill of it.

Loni Flowers

#32. We have a saying in Russia: if there hadn't been an unhappy incident there never would be a happy one!

Anne Noggle

#33. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

Edward Snowden

#34. There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.

Amitav Ghosh

#35. I didn't ever think you were a freak. I think ... I thought you were magic or something. I thought that you were too perfect to be real.

Cynthia Hand

#36. National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

Al Franken

#37. He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#38. Regardless of all of the ways that the media have changed in recent years, one thing that will never go out of style in America is the ability of a free press to keep the public accurately and honestly informed about its government.

Candice S. Miller