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Make our democracy work the way it's supposed to work.
There is no way we can talk about a lasting peace, building of democracy, sustainable economies, any kind of stabilities, if we do not fully include women at the negotiating table.
And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies.
So over the next few years, as this political cycle plays out, you're going to see American democracy rise to meet the challenges that capitalism poses and modernity poses.
We're the only ones with jewelry and democracy.
As most of you know, she's a hero for democracy in her country, Burma.
You probably also know that she has spent 15 of the last 20 years imprisoned for her efforts to bring about democracy.
She said, "You know, we have a long road to go to finally get democracy in my country.
The Million Signatures Campaign of women inside Burma working together to change human rights, to bring democracy to that country.
Well, that idea of biomimicry, respecting the wisdom of all species, combined with the idea of democracy and social justice, respecting the wisdom and the worth of all people, would give us a different society.
And it's obviously got nothing to do with democracy, because in our terms the Chinese certainly don't have a democracy.
But the values of democracy and the freedom of choice that is sweeping the Middle East at this moment in time is the best opportunity for the world, for the West and the East, to see stability and to see security and to see friendship and to see tolerance emerging from the Arab world, rather than the images of violence and terrorism.
WK: And people actually, after the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak regime, the youth who have organized themselves in certain groups and councils, they are guarding the transformation and they are trying to put it on a track in order to satisfy the values of democracy, but at the same time also to make it reasonable and to make it rational, not to go out of order.
And I was sure that it was going to be great for democracy and for our society.
That, in fact, you couldn't have a functioning democracy if citizens didn't get a good flow of information, that the newspapers were critical because they were acting as the filter, and then journalistic ethics developed.
If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines.
George Bush thought he was going to invade Iraq, find a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, liberate the people and bring democracy to the Middle East.
That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government.
And most of all, in the way that we fought for democracy.
What is unbelievably ironic is the period that we tried to depict in the film, the cry for democracy and social justice, repeats itself now again in Tehran.
It brought a lot of attention to all those Iranians who stand for basic human rights and struggle for democracy.
Now, these are things about general culture, but I'm also very much interested in political culture and whether liberty and democracy is appreciated, or whether there's an authoritarian political culture in which the state is supposed to impose things on the citizens.
But not just that; also democracy, parliament, the idea of representation, the idea of equal citizenship.
And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.
But the fact that those dictators suppressed democracy in their country and suppressed Islamic groups in their country actually made the Islamists much more strident.
Secondly, and most importantly, Turkey became a democracy earlier than any of the countries we are talking about.
And they realized that democracy is something compatible with Islam, compatible with their values, and they've been supportive of democracy.
They were asking for democracy; they were asking for freedom.
They said, "We want freedom; we want democracy.
Democracy is not an overnight achievement; it's a process.
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