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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
"The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount."
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"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
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