"...in a democracy the state will always be a reflection of its own society, just as the society will be the creation of the countless faiths and moral principles that inspire and shape it.

"...American public discourse has degenerated into a bitter contentiousness that borders on ideological civil war. It has loosed an unholy trio of consequences- insistent demands, irreconcilable differences, and interminable disagreements. Trust is out, tribalism in. Reasoned argument has been replaced by unargued assertion and attack, while the rhetoric of protest, pronouncements, and posturing has drowned that of persuasion." -Os Guinness, "The American Hour," 1993