Democracy Quote by Ken Livingstone

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it…

— H. L. Mencken

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the…

— Walter Cronkite

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

— Milton Glaser

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big…

— Anonymous

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

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly…

— Jonathan Demme

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print…

— Katherine Graham

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.

— Richard Edelman

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this…

— Chris Hedges

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to…

— Craig Newmark