Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.