„There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That’s how we got health care for more of our people.“

— Barack Obama

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„We still think and talk of the basic problems of an industrial society as problems that can be solved by changing the system, that is the superstructure of political organization. Yet the real problems lie within the [industrial] enterprise. …our representative institution… a mirror in which we look when we want to see ourselves.“
— Peter F. Drucker
„And we -- like every country -- need the space that democracy gives us to change. It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better.“
— Barack Obama
„Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.“
— Margaret Mead