Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.
– Nancy Snow
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- In a constructive policy, there is -˜adjust everywhere’ and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment. – Dada Bhagwan
- Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. – Abhijit Naskar
- Survive, survive and survive -“ these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean. – Abhijit Naskar
- All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event. – Jean Baudrillard
- When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone. – Janna Cachola
- Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. – Paul Collier
- As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department. – Earl Lovelace
- I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know). – Anthony Hope
- The fight for truth…is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. – Vandana Shiva
- In his early days at University, he’d been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends. – T Baggins
- Debates should always move in the direction of understanding. – RADelmonico
- I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. – George Washington
- I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective. – Mireille Guiliano
- If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
- You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. – Alan W Watts
- Obscenity is a function of culture – a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. – AP
- Obscenity is a function of culture – a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. – AP
- Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
- If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow? – Jennifer McMahon
- Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. – Sarah Addison Allen
- Moriré besando a Simon Snow. Simon Snow morirá besándome. – Rainbow Rowell
- I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret. – Kate Messner
- Later in the winter I’d tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different. – Marie Landry
- the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens – Fairclough Norman
- Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy. – Gloria Steinem
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. – William Beveridge
- You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn’t mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120 – Kazuo Ishiguro
- To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. – Chris Womersley
- After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty. – John Connolly
- You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry. – Amit Kalantri
- Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public. – Amit Kalantri
- When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
- For Madison, on the other hand, -œa Public Debt is a Public curse,- and -œin a Representative Government greater than in any other.-26 – Joseph J Ellis
- His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too. – Suzanne Collins
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
- The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
- Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr