#citizenry

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

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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

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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

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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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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

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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. ↗

— David Brin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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