Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.

In a healthy democracy, the voters choose representatives. In the system we have, the representatives choose the voters. That's upside down. This proposal puts us right side up again.

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards,

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.