Crosswords do not informed citizens make.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

— Aaron Swartz

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

— Wangari Maathai

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

— Ian Goldin

It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make…

— Nina Turner

Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

— F. David Mathews

It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.

— Barack Obama

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

— Plutarch

“Well-informed citizens, too, have come in for their share of criticism, since their well-organized “ideological” thinking often turns out to be just a rather…

— Christopher H. Achen

“This is only the beginning of a huge “Copernican revolution” (to borrow a phrase from Matthew Taylor, one of Tony Blair’s advisers) that is…

— John Micklethwait

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

— Thomas Jefferson

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but…

— Robert Bly

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

— Dahr Jamail

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I…

— John F. Kennedy

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

— Paul Collier

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake…

— Rick Santorum