Alec Baldwin Quotes

It’s our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say it is our opinion.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

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

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

I don't want your vote. I want something more important. I want your commitment to think. Because once you start thinking, I'll get your vote.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

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.

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.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

Public television is a very important thing for our human race, and it allows us the ability to discuss the elephants in the room and understand stories beyond the headlines.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

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.

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

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.

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.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.