A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell. — Stuart Rothenberg Copy Share Image
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
Screaming 'you're wrong' at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left.… — Sam Reed Copy Share Image
People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways. — Michael Fullilove Copy Share Image
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Very obviously, the electorate as a mass has not imbibed the philosophy of 'think national, act local' or even 'think big and… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information,… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable,… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic. — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image