In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.