An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who…

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to…

— Barack Obama

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

— Leon Trotsky

Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to…

— Mark Skousen

I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on…

— Matt Damon

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader…

— Julius Caesar

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from…

— Michael Parenti

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

— Margaret Spellings

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

— Stefan Halper

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

— David Blunkett

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

— Thomas Jefferson