Quote of the Day

I've stayed hooked on campaigns to this day.  Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts.  As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.  Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future.  It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected.  In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

-- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, p. 131-132