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Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
Rick Perry / Governor Of Texas
Active
Citizenry
Democracy
Function
Functions
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Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
Cory Booker / United States Senator
Citizenry
Partners
Engage
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An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Citizenry
Informed Citizenry
Informed Citizens
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley, Jr. / Author
Freedom
Government
Assertive
Citizenry
Defense
Democracy
Against
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Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
Richard N. Haass / Diplomat
Citizenry
Informed
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The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.
Julie Sweet /
Citizenry
Digital
Fluency
Invest
Raising
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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
David Brin / Scientist
Citizenry
Democracy
Empowered
Empowering
Political
Vocal
Perform
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A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.
Glenn Greenwald / Journalist
Citizenry
Fearful
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An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
Ezra Taft Benson / Farmer
Citizenry
Representatives
Elect
Tend
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We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.
Ben Sasse /
Capable
Citizenry
Daily Life
Educated
Resilient
Complexities
Daily
Increasing
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The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Government
Citizenry
Greek
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan / Astronomer
Education
Atheist
Awake
Citizenry
Needs
Species
Thinking
Understanding
Wide
Wide Awake
Basic
Basic Understanding
Works
Deserves
Minds
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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
David Blunkett / British Politician
Citizenry
Doom
Engagement
Participation
Wider
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
William Weld / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Government
Application
Citizenry
Purpose
Contribute
Shared
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Phillip E. Johnson / Law Professor
Education
Certain
Citizenry
Degrees
Democracy
Doe
Serious
Trouble
Virtue
Does
Certain Degree
Constitutional
Degree
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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Maurice Hinchey / Former U.s. Representative
Citizenry
Conscience
Oil Companies
Relentlessly
Whatsoever
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Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
Ro Khanna /
Citizenry
Cultivating
Thoughtful
Educators
Tech
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Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
Winnie Byanyima / Engineer
Citizenry
Civil Society
Inequality
Marked
Protecting
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If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.
John Hickenlooper / Governor Of Colorado
Achievement
Citizenry
Well Educated
Workforce
Build
Close
Gap
Youngest
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum / Author
Patriotism
Citizenry
Convinced
Phenomenon
Treason
Worse
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America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
Daniel Lubetzky /
Accentuate
Citizenry
Dynamic
Eagerly
Exploit
Fox
Increasingly
Polarized
Suffers
Uniformed
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It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Maurice Hinchey / Former U.s. Representative
Citizenry
Conscience
Oil Companies
Relentlessly
Price
Whatsoever
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Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings / Former United States Secretary Of Education
Education
Challenges
Citizenry
Confronting
Educated
Higher
Higher Education
Numbers
Adequately
Trained
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Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
Bill O'reilly / Host
Christian
Citizenry
Generous
Philosophy
Pursuit
Right Way
Together
Bind
Religions
Uphold
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
Scott Turow / Author
Education
Knowledge
Access
Citizenry
Democracy
Guarantees That
Pillars
Public Education
Public
Guarantee
Widespread
Maintain
Well-Informed
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The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.
Seth Meyers /
Anger
Citizenry
Comedian
Emotion
Frustrated
Just Be
Member
Minute
Nice Thing
Unplug
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Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Citizenry
Done
Openness
Powerful
Protect
Transparency
Weapons
Wikileaks
Among
Corrupt
Itself
Few
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Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
Conrad Burns / Former United States Senator
Citizenry
Frivolous
Goods
Montana
People
States
Perform
Deliver
Frivolous Lawsuits
Life Rest People
Lawsuits
Services
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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.
Jonathan Demme / Filmmaker
Citizenry
Fulfilling
Great Job
Journalism
Subjects
Informed
Profoundly
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
Hamza Yusuf / Scholar
Citizenry
Democracy
Educated
Fashion
Nicole
People
People Doing More
Interested
Model
Latest
Nicole Kidman
Whoever
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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
David Mamet / Playwright
Government
Branches
Citizenry
Mass
Media
Three
Then
Represent
Failed
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The most dangerous thing a member of Congress could do is to ignore the citizenry who have taken up the mantle of reporting since they weren't getting the truth from the co-opted mainstream outlets.
Dana Loesch /
Citizenry
Mainstream
Outlets
Dangerous Thing
Ignore
Mantle
Reporting
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Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Don Tapscott / Author
Age
Active
Citizenry
Deliberation
Democracy
Digital
Digital Age
Offers
Weak
Industrial
Mandate
Representative
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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Leadership
Citizenry
Ethnicity
Eye
Legitimacy
Path
Qualified
Race
Cultivate
Talented
Individuals
Visibly
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
Bernice King / Minister
Citizenry
Enforcement
Entertainment
Law Enforcement
Media
Nonviolence
Arts
Choice
Ensure
Global
Join
Rediscover
Sector
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Kamisese Mara / Former Prime Minister Of Fiji
Confidence
Jobs
Smile
Breakdown
Citizenry
Judiciary
Law And Order
Loss
Order
Business Community
Earnings
Extent
Feared
Reduced
Sales
Seriously
Slump
Weakened
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Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you're only getting half the story, that certainly doesn't lead to an informed citizenry.
Christie Hefner / Business Executive
Analysis
Citizenry
Thoughtful
Believe Democracy People
Informed
Lifeblood
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
Charlie Pierce /
Bill Of Rights
Citizenry
Consensus
Folks
Normal
Overwhelming
Rights
September
Window
Bill
Elite
Rounding
Says
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I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
Sharron Angle / Politician
Arms
Citizenry
Enforcement
Founding
Law Enforcement
Military
Second Amendment
Tyranny
Amendment
Bear
Fathers
Founding Fathers
In Fact
Intended
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
Naomi Klein / Author
Brands
Citizenry
Starbucks
Work Home Community
Work Home Where
Gather
Needing
Talked
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Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
Jonathan Haidt / Psychologist
Citizenry
Criminals
Evil
Gun
House
Increase
Nightmare
Accident
Conservatives
Disarmed
Member
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Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Citizenry
Congo
Diverse
Peaceful
Prosperous
Reaching
Sahara
Sudan
Africa
Construct
Cultures
Religions
Experiment
Largest
Multitude
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I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.
Andrew Solomon / Writer
Environmental
Attendance
Citizenry
Conservation
Curiosity
Importance
Thrift
Encountered
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Attacking
Citizenry
Disenfranchised
Groups
Suspicious
Terrorist
Alienated
Ally
Attempts
Benefit
Compliant
Showing
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You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle / Politician
Jobs
Government
Available
Citizenry
Entitlement
Spoiled
Unemployment
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