A Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American - Scientist
Born: October 5, 1958

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.

Daniel Levitin

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

Melissa Bean

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

Howard Zinn

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

Rebecca Goldstein

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

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

Brad Henry

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

Jane O'Meara Sanders

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

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

Bob Graham

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

Dave Rubin

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.