Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.