“In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.” CountryDemocracyOrganizationUnionsDemocraticInternationalProsperityRegionsPacificDemocratic Country Author:Annette Lu
“Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.” MatterRolesDemocracyImportanceEastRegionsAsiaStrategicPacificTaiwanEast Asia Author:Annette Lu
“Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.” KnowsTryingWellsDoeRunningJobsDemocracyGreaterHigherInvestmentWorkersRegionsSteelPitsClosureIdioticRailwayRedundancyBamboozle Author:Anthony Crosland
“The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying to export democracy, including to regions where there is no traditional foundation for it. That cannot end well.” KnowsWorldTryingWellsEndsDemocracyFoundationUnionsWestIncludingTraditionalCommunismRegionsSovietSoviet Union Author:Vladimir Yakunin
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.” WorldLongGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulCompanyDemocracyMiddleTaughtWillingBalancePaidWestWesternHeavyOilEastOppressionCodeOperationsRegionsFriendlyMost PowerfulTyrantsRegimesMiddle EastDictatorshipTolerateLimitlessCiaAugustCoupsTiltOil CompaniesAjaxPowerful Government Author:Stephen Kinzer
“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.” PeopleYearsLongHas BeensStatesRunningNationsLibertyDemocracyMiddleSubjectsCitizensSafeDeserveVictimWesternWaveActiveEastRegionsExpensesStabilityMiddle EastLong RunsSixtyDemocracies Have Author:George W. Bush