The crisis

Guess who said this:

I'm trying to say to you, be a part of the change. No one else is going to do it. The politicians are paralyzed. The people have to do it for themselves! Our democracy hasn't been working very well—that's my opinion. We've made a bunch of serious policy mistakes. But it's way too simple and way too partisan to blame the Bush-Cheney Administration. We've got checks and balances, an independent judiciary, a free press, a Congress—have they all failed us? Have we failed ourselves?

Hint: It's someone who knows about this from very direct personal experience.