Communication Quote by Tony Blair

Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does…

— William Greider

We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which…

— Tom Bentley

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

— Amy Goodman

If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process,…

— Barack Obama

We have to fundamentally change the way people are elected to political office in this country, as well as the types of people that…

— Diana Taylor

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need…

— Robin Cook

A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in particular it's…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

— Van Jones

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

— Jack Schlossberg

A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this society together.

— Masha Gessen

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

— Barack Obama