Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. — Felix Frankfurter
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. — Lyn Nofziger
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy. — Thomas Jefferson
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy — Nelson Mandela
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. — Thomas Jefferson
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. — Elihu Root
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. — Brad Henry
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. — Melissa Bean
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that. — Nikki Reed
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. — Thomas Jefferson
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for. — Jill Stein
Informed Citizenry Quotes
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
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. — Albert Einstein
Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before — Dahr Jamail
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers. — Pat Mitchell
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
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government. — Ryan Shapiro
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated. — Ralph Nader
Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry. — Ryan Shapiro
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action. — Randal Marlin
The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'. — Al Gore
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. — Lane Evans
There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool. — Bryan Caplan
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. — Danny Glover
I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. — Miriam
The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter is also someone who is dealing with an entirely new economy that his father, grandfather or grandmother didn't have to face 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago. — Marc Lamont Hill
A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to. — Brian Reade
You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all. — Nicholas Lemann
If you look at the state of California, the children who are not receiving the education that they should are both black and Latino children. And together they would represent a majority of progressive voters in the state of California. And the state is still very, very broken. — Maria Echaveste
You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this. — Frank Bruni
Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated. — Marc Lamont Hill
There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now. — Noam Chomsky
This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits. — Mara Liasson
White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters. — Mara Liasson
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters. — Mara Liasson
The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective. — Rush Limbaugh
Well, in fact if you look at the Trump voters, you take a look at their attitudes it's not all that different. In some respects they're similar. They're an older version of the Sanders people. So a lot of it is racist and you have that sort of thing, but if you look at their views on say health, education, and so on, it's kind of the same as Sanders. — Noam Chomsky
Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first. — Zephyr Teachout
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda. — Dana Goldstein
Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway. — Ozzy Osbourne
While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory. — Mara Liasson
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. — John Jay Chapman
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. — Mark Lilla
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation. — Ulysses S. Grant
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you. — Joseph J. Romm
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters. — Fredrik Bajer
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