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Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

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.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.