Choices Quote by F. David Mathews

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

— Anonymous

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

— Jesse Jackson

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By…

— Kevin Mattson

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

— Publilius Syrus

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on…

— Peter Boettke

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political…

— Noam Chomsky

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond…

— Alan Blinder

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

— George Monbiot

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will…

— Kevin Mattson

Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made…

— Kevin Mattson