Democracy is the political enactment of the spiritual concept that every human possesses a divine spark and therefore deserves a voice through voting.

“I believe that democracy uh as you point out, as President Eisenhower understood, democracy in many ways is the solution. It's the best that humanity has. It's it it is for me the political enactment of a spiritual idea, this notion that all of us have within us a the divine spark.”

Political leaders must exercise moral clarity by condemning political violence and rejecting the politics of division and scapegoating.

“I think what we need right now is for all leaders, starting with the president, including me and others, to speak and act with moral clarity and to condemn this.”