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"I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East."
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"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
Religion
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
Debate
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
Order
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
Fear
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
Culture
"There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization."
Muslim
"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
Culture
"The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause."
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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
Democracy
"The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."
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"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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