It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.