You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
Democracy fascinates me.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Democracy is a process.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there are people in the United States today.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
We're not a democracy.