Citizenry Quote by Ryan Shapiro Download Open image “Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.” — Ryan Shapiro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizenry Democracy Function Informed citizenry
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader… — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
