Dee Hock, Founder of VISA International . . . . .

"We do not have a health care problem. We do not have an educational problem, a welfare problem, an environmental problem or an economic problem. They are symptom not disease. At bottom, we have an institutional problem, and until we properly diagnose and deal with it, societal problems will get progressively worse. There is simply no way to govern the diversity and complexity of twenty first century society with eighteenth century concepts of organization. Efforts to reinvent government are laudable, but they are not enough. We must re-conceive the fundamental nature of governance itself."

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I think I’d start by revising or rewriting the existing constitution and the bill of rights. We have 200+ years of experience and now would be a good time to put it to use. And these are a top few of the people living today I’d like to see help draft it.

- Haynes Johnson
- Jerry Brown
- Bill Clinton
- Alan Simpson
- George Soros
- Steve Jobs
- Noam Chomsky
- Jack Stack
- Amitai Etzioni
- Warren Beatty
- Amy Goodman
- Paul Krugman
- David McCullough
- Garry Wills
- Howard Zinn
- Some people from South America, Europe, Asia, the Mid-East, Africa, and a few other countries.

Thoughts?