Democracy depends on information circulating freely in…

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they…

— Emilio Estevez

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak…

— Robert Greenwald

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

— Brad Schneider

“[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination…

— Irving Copi

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

— Dennis Kucinich

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

— Norman Mailer

Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic…

— Tina Smith

Democracy depends on the legitimacy of the process for winning and exchanging power. Once lost, that legitimacy is difficult to recover.

— Jamelle Bouie

It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which…

— Paul Romer

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

— Howard Zinn

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

— Steve Jobs

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same…

— Hillary Clinton

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

— Dev Anand