There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.
