It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions honorably, and hopefully, forge sufficient consensus to understand each other and then to govern.

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.