Here, I interviewed people who were residents of formerly communist countries, who had all faced the challenge of transitioning to a more democratic and capitalistic society.

If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch, or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch.

York Harding. The Dangers To Democracy.

These are not simply American values or Western values they are universal values.

It's a 40 year old company, it understands manufacturing.

If you look at the last 35 years and different social transitions, from dictatorship to democracy, you will see that, out of 67 different cases, in 50 of these cases it was nonviolent struggle which was the key power.

And what do we teach in these schools?

The Limits of Democracy

Kuwaiti Democracy in Action

But, we can escape from this trap, these pincers, I think.

I thought this was a democracy and I thought the democracy is based to the collective will of the people.

The constitution's gone.

But this is a democracy, Harvey.

Shoot, bitch! Democracy's at stake.

Huh? Democracy time, y'all.

Today, things are a lot more subtle.

Democracy Comes Second

Is that democracy?

I am on the side of democracy.

It matters because this is a democracy.

And equality?

I believe in democracy.

The bubble is an anti monument.

George W. Bush

And that democracy will be restored

And finally, India has had the deepening of its democracy.

What does it mean to be a participant?

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It meant something that would connect us all together.

And that's why the Ottoman Empire in its last decades turned into a proto democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and freedom was a very important political value at the time.

What we'll have in the end is this ideal that you see on the slide here the ideal that people should vote in an existing democracy, not for a democracy.

And this science is not a rich man's game.

Now we have the reverse tendency.

So it got me thinking, what is it?

I'm here to talk about democracy.

The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.

And I think the getaway message from that would be that Islam, despite some of the skeptics in the West, has the potential in itself to create its own way to democracy, create its own way to liberalism, create its own way to freedom.

We stand for democracy.

Franklin said, A republic, madam, if you can keep it.

This is still a democracy.

What is unbelievably ironic is the period that we tried to depict in the film, the cry for democracy and social justice, repeats itself now again in Tehran.

But in my view it very well captures part of the problem that we have with democracy in Europe these days.

Let me look at this question more directly.

So, asked in that way,

I'd like to know...