“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.