Ana Kasparian Quotes

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

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.

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

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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.

I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

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

For America to work, Americans have to participate. If they don’t pay attention, they’re going to get screwed.

I hope we can use television somehow to begin to reengage people in this conversation of democracy.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

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

... the even more fundamental task that lies before the leader of a democracy is to bring to the people the realization that true democracy is the effort of the people individually to carry their share of the burden of government.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you're only getting half the story, that certainly doesn't lead to an informed citizenry.

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

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

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.

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.