Donna Brazile Quotes

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

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

There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

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.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

[Commenting on Shays' Rebellion:] The way to prevent these regular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro' the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people.

A people without reliable news is, sooner or later, a people without the basis of freedom.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Democracies die in darkness.... I don't realluy think that President Trump really believes that the press is the "enemy of the people"

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.