The most important thing for everyone to understand about the ongoing existential battle to preserve our American birthright of a free and open society is that all these institutions — and the vast sources of independent knowledge contained within them — are more powerful than one petty, addled man.
Powell emphasizes the strength of democratic institutions against individual threats.
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It is a big risk to our independence if we were to stray into areas where we shouldn’t that really aren’t part of our mandate.
If we're going to do that successfully, we need to do it in a completely nonpolitical way, which means we don't take sides, we don't play one side against the other, we stay out of issues that are really not our bailiwick.
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