Eli Broad Quotes

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

The perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

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

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for president. One hopes it is the same half

I do believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal And in the traces lead ‘em.

We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

The Buckeye Build will have a lasting impact on Cleveland, and it is an honor to be a part of it.

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

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

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back; the way he would phrase it is, 'We'll give you opportunity, but you have to take responsibility.'

I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever... Not that journalism is always wonderful - it's not - but at least we offer some way out, some integrity.

Public broadcasting makes our nation smarter, stronger and, yes, safer.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'