Sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me.

You're risking your political capital.

We can put this defeat to political use.

90 percent of the funding came from Thailand.

The country is isolated economically and politically.

Politics, man. Politics.

This is political!

Statically, China is a one party system, authoritarian there's no question about it.

They were asking for democracy they were asking for freedom.

Add in the increased vulnerability of very large numbers of people in the developing world, caused by civil wars, ethnic conflicts, kleptocratic governments, disease ... you name it, you know it.

A certain amount of certainty gives the sense of a non zero outcome.

But certainly, recently, we've had some real tangible things about where society's changing.

It can give credit to sound decision making, adding momentum to success.

Well. you see right there, you have various political motivations and antimanipulistic sentiments to set forth.

I'll show you.

Churchill was a worthy statesman.

But to get to that stage, where democracy builds the fabric of society and the political choices within that fabric, but are certainly not theocratic and military dictatorship i.e. you're voting in a democracy, in an existing democracy, and that democracy is not merely one of the choices at the ballot box.

Iran s Political Clerics

He is an energetic politician.

It's a political piece, and it's...

Politically active. Animals First.

Mr. Belicoff? I'm sorry.

Brazil radicalized very strongly.

He has blossomed into a great statesman.

Mr. White is a liberal politician.

And that doesn't produce a productive politics.

Because they had no idea.

This is what we need to do with heart disease now.

Bullies use violence in three ways.

Now the teacher says it's too political and we can't put it on.

Let's look at some data from the U.K. now.

He established himself as a politician.

And that regime that we got rid of was actually a dictatorship, an authoritarian regime, that for decades created a great sense of paralysis within the nation, within the people themselves.

Then we say, Ah, well it must be a financial problem.

When the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward.

Now these are things about general culture, but I'm also very much interested in political culture and whether liberty and democracy is appreciated, or whether there's an authoritarian political culture in which the state is supposed to impose things on the citizens.

You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.

TJ It has to be companies. It has to be civil society.

Due to some political problems that are being resolved...

It would be politically untenable.

Better than a philandering, dishonest old politician.

left such a lasting impression.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political.

And this is the difficulty that I face.

It will take an independent Vietnamese leader to rule our country.