Gavin Newsom: “In a democracy, the most important office is [the] office of…”

“And you keep coming back this notion of citizenship, active, not inert citizenship, that we have agency, we can shape the future. We're not bystanders. I think it was Brandeis who said, In a democracy, the most important office is [the] office of citizen. So this is what Washington knew, right? When he resigns, I think he was tacitly saying, even when he resigned, the military commission mission, I am a citizen.” (50:39–50:44)

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