Christie Hefner Quotes

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

The vitality of democracy depends on popular knowledge of complex questions.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

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 social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.

That's really what's kept me at 'TYT' even though I've gotten offers where I'd make a lot more money working at other media outlets: There's a value in making sure we inform our audience so they're responsible members of the democratic process. To me, that's more valuable than ratings or money or anything else you can get at these other networks.

For all the talk about, and appeals to, Trump fans who wanted to watch the press corps bullied and bashed, most Americans don't want that. They never did. Most Americans want to know what is real and true so that they can make the best decisions for their families.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

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

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what issues are facing the country, then you get just part of the equation. I think it's important that we as citizens of this democracy take the responsibility to get as much information as possible before we go into the voting booth.

It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.

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.