The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
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There is a danger in democracy itself.
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
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