Kate Adie Quotes

If you can exchange information freely, isn’t that almost a definition of democracy.

Democracy requires that those who bear the consequences of decisions have enough knowledge to hold the decision-makers accountable.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

What is good for democracy is good for America.

What makes our country unique is its commitment to being open, to making its leaders accountable.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

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

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

Democracy is more than just election day.

In a democracy, power implies responsibility.

Democratic government may indeed be defined as the government which accepts in the fullest sense responsibility to explain itself.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.