No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.