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Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values. ”
I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy. ”
India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law. ”
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain. ”
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. ”
Without a doubt, at the end of the day, Neom will be floated in the markets. The first zone floated in the public markets. It's as if you float the city of New York. ”
Democracy is not an instant coffee. ”
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons. ”
In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign. ”
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. ”