Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

We have an educated and cynical electorate.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

If you can't explain your vote in 30 seconds, its the wrong vote.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of us all.

Voters are not great at reading issues. They are great at reading character.

A clueless electorate is a corruptible one …

I guess I am politically very naive.

One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but they were interesting about and interested in the world.

I like to think of myself as an active American in our politics, but I get lost sometimes watching everything.

I don't think I'd really talked about politics - governmental politics specifically - very often, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to do so for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I'm not that well-versed or educated in politics.

Getting a lot more Americans interested in politics is not the same as getting a lot more Americans knowledgeable about the workings of democracy or government. It has brought the worldview associated with sports-talk radio to politics; you’ve got a team and you want that team to win, and the other team is always the worst, and the refs are always unfairly treating your side. Heaven forbid you concede that the other team played a better game.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.

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.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.

I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.