Find Quote by Daniel Espinosa

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

— Ted Gup

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

— Rupert Murdoch

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

— Arvind Kejriwal

“Public access to government information is a fundamental prerequisite to a functioning democracy. A democratic system is based on the notion that government legitimacy…

— John Podesta

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of…

— Jean Houston

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It’s the natural state of information to be free.”

— Dave Eggers

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

— Kate Adie

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because…

— Warren G. Bennis

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…

— Jim Lehrer

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

— Jim DeMint