Knowledgeable Citizens Quotes

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

The effective functioning of our constitutional democracy depends upon the participation in public life of a citizenry that is well informed

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

There's a lot to learn in Nashville. This town is just filled with amazing, talented, smart people, so it's been an honor to be part of that community and to have everyone open their arms wide to me.