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

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.

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

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

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

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

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

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.