I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.
Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.
Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.
People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.
I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
