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• Many of the Western democracies – including the U.S. – have a problem that voters want benefits they don’t want to pay for.

  Henry Paulson

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• The United States can’t impose democracies. We can’t impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

  Chuck Hagel

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• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

  Barney Frank

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• The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

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• In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

  Christiane Amanpour

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• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world’s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  Natan Sharansky

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