I always love these nuggets I find over at Fatshadow:
Democracy is about finding a way to get all the voices in the room so that the conversation can be both expansive and inclusive. Democracy acknowledges the tension and seeks to govern not through the domination of a particular ideology but through the awareness that our institutions need to serve us all. Our institutions need to hold the tension and manage the more mundane process of how we spend our collective dollar.
She was reflecting on the amount of money spent on inaugural festivities, and how unseemly it is at any time for such amounts of money be spent when we are a country supposedly striving for egalitarian ideals.