There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.