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Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote…

— Christie Hefner

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All…

— Maria Ressa

“Whatever the source, a steady diet of bad information, conveyed in bad faith, can over time become a serious threat to a democracy. Over…

— Jeff Flake

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem…

— Tavis Smiley

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

— Ralph Nader

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the…

— Frances Arnold

Information is the currency of democracy.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

— Ken Livingstone

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a…

— Jay Griffiths