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Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

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

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.