Brad Pitt Quotes

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

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.

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.

I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.

An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political equals, they to have to have the information and tools so they can actually be participants. That's liberal democracy 101.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.