A Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
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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.
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.
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
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.
American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.
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.
The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.
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.
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.
If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.
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