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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. -- Brad Henry
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. -- Melissa Bean
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. -- Charles de Gaulle
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. -- Elihu Root
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. -- David Attenborough
There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate. -- Stockwell Day
There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did. -- John Prescott
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it. -- Jim Lehrer
Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. -- Paul Weyrich
Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. -- Paul Weyrich
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. -- Felix Frankfurter
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. -- Thomas Jefferson
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. -- Arlen Specter
The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. -- Conrad Black
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. -- Lyn Nofziger
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate. -- Reese Schonfeld
I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. -- David Remnick
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. -- Joan Didion
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career. -- Helen Suzman
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account. -- Al Franken
I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right. -- Jeff Daniels
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. -- Camille Paglia
What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. -- Susan Faludi
Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. -- David Mamet
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. -- Patrick MacGill
Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. -- Daniel Hannan
One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other. -- Olympia Snowe
There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns. -- Louis Farrakhan
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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. -- John Podhoretz
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. -- Lane Evans
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage. -- Noam Chomsky
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. -- Marc Faber
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps. -- Simon Hoggart
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions. -- Stephen Kinzer
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. -- Adam Rickitt
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. -- Mara Liasson
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. -- Hassan Rouhani
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. -- Brian Eno
Most often the electorate votes for change. -- David Sirota
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. -- Herbert Hoover
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate. -- Thomas Jefferson
[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate. -- Karl Rove
If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices. -- Jane Mayer
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle. -- Enoch Powell
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population. -- David Price
In Utah, where the states` Mormon GOP electorate is especially unfavorable to [Donald] Trump. -- Chris Hayes
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama. -- Mara Liasson
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. -- Don Aitkin
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. -- Frank Herbert
You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime. -- Nat Hentoff
As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way. -- John le Carre
Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are. -- Kellyanne Conway
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. -- Charles de Gaulle
There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways. -- Michael Fullilove
The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell. -- Stuart Rothenberg
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. -- John Podhoretz
Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation. -- Paul Collier
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. -- John Podhoretz
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. -- Paul Goodman
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy. -- Jill Stein
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day. -- Lawrence Block
No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate. -- John I. Jenkins
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate. -- George Bernard Shaw
What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged. -- Graydon Carter
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies. -- Moses Finley
I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done. -- Sam Reed
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese. -- Cindy Sheehan
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs. -- Derek Wilson
We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this. -- Ronen Sen
In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments. -- Roger Ailes
Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy. -- Robert Kuttner
In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that. -- Mara Liasson
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening. -- John F. Kerry
Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms. -- Michael Ignatieff
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock. -- Ron Fournier
We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [ Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes. -- Rick Perry
It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them. -- James Fallows
Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision. -- Anthony Albanese
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs. -- Scott Pelley
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions. -- Will Self

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