Democracy Quote by Scott Pelley Download Open image “Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.” — Scott Pelley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Failing Journalism Succeed Success
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
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