“I work with young people, teaching them civics and democratic participation, and for years now I’ve told them this same truth – that each generation must learn democracy anew, and that the only way to learn it is to live it, in community with each other, holding to our values and our conviction that we can do something incredible together that we could not have done apart. You all are teaching a generation of Americans what democracy really is – people of so many diverse backgrounds and perspectives, who are unwilling to turn their backs on each other, no matter how dark it gets, or how cold, or how dangerous.”
(CHENEY, WASHINGTON)