A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

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

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.