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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.

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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✓Similar Perspectives

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

— Ibrahim Babangida

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

— Al Smith

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

— Ivan Krastev

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

— Hugo Chavez

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

— Ameen Rihani

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

— Agnes Repplier

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

— William J. Clinton

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

— Jill Lepore

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