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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

The world is as it should be.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.