“But that's the nature of democracy. That's why it works, is because it's constantly challenging leaders to up their game and to do better.”

— Barack Obama

2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
Context: Democracy is sometimes messy, and for leaders, sometimes it's frustrating. Democracy means that somebody is always complaining about something. Nobody is ever happy in a democracy about their government. If you make one person happy, somebody else is unhappy. Then sometimes somebody who you made happy, later on, now they’re not happy. They say, what have you done for me lately? But that's the nature of democracy. That's why it works, is because it's constantly challenging leaders to up their game and to do better.

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