Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
