Leadership Quote by Ron Davies

"There is so much that can be done" is the politician's oldest seduction: urgency without a receipt. Ron Davies opens with expansive possibility, a mood-setting phrase that invites agreement before any hard choices appear. It's aspirational, but also conveniently nonbinding. The little tag "you see" is doing quiet work, too. It's conversational, even paternal, as if the logic is self-evident and dissent would be a failure of comprehension rather than a legitimate disagreement.

Then comes the legitimizing move: "the assembly is about improving our democracy". Not government, not institutions, not policy outcomes - democracy, the high ground. Assemblies (especially reform-oriented ones) often sit at the intersection of genuine civic renewal and strategic repositioning. Framing an assembly as democratic improvement preemptively sanctifies the process: if you question the mechanism, you're cast as questioning democracy itself. It's a rhetorical moat.

The subtext is procedural politics: shifting attention from contentious ends to agreeable means. "Improving" signals progress while sidestepping whose democracy is being improved, for whom, and at what cost. It also nudges listeners to accept that the current system is insufficient, but that the fix is safely channelled through an official forum rather than street-level disruption.

Contextually, this kind of line surfaces when leaders need consent for structural change - devolution, constitutional tinkering, institutional reform - where the details are messy and the coalition is fragile. The sentence is a bridge: broad enough to hold competing hopes, vague enough to postpone the fight.