A Quote by Al Gore

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
American - President
Born: March 31, 1948

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.

Terence McKenna

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

The requirement upon the sovereign to 'advise, encourage, and warn' means that the Queen must be well informed. The weekly audience with the Prime Minister is not to discuss the weather but to talk about the most pressing problems facing the nation. An ill-informed monarch cannot do that and would fail in a key constitutional task.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

Ryan Shapiro

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Mo Ibrahim

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

Richard N. Haass

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

Thomas Jefferson

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Mamet

As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.

Will Hurd

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