“Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.”

— Barack Obama

Remarks during conference held on March 6, 2019 by Qualtrics, a tech company in Salt Lake City. As quoted in the March 7, 2019 article " Obama warns that if the world isn't careful, democracy could be in danger: 'Democracy is a garden that has to be tended' https://web.archive.org/web/20191127211836/https://www.businessinsider.de/obama-issued-a-warning-on-the-political-climate-i-like-the-rule-of-law-democracy-competency-and-facts-those-things-arent-partisan-but-they-also-dont-happen-auatomatically-2019-3?r=US&IR=T" by Business Insider Deutschland author Julie Bort.
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