Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy is a process.
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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.
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.