"Liberals, progressives, and Democrats are never able to decide whether they're for or against more democracy. It depends entirely upon whether they're in power."
"...Obama hates democracy. He don't like checks & balances. And if he doesn't like it here, he doesn't like it there, either. He likes the dictators..."
"...You've got this huge machinery of organization coming from the White House... to bully around the people of Wisconsin. It's not just an attack on democracy - it is that, very much that - but it also goes further. I think it's very fair to call this also an attempt in its own way to dismantle the Constitution..."
"...Plans were being made for democratic style elections [in Egypt] this coming September... the law & the constitution said that anyone could run provided that you'd been in the leadership of one of Egypt's political parties for at least 1 year. That would've outlawed the really dangerous, theocratic elements of Egyptian society... They were qualifying people who were genuinely interested in freedom and democracy..."
"...Egypt is NOT ready for instant democracy. We do not know who these 'freedom-fighters' are... We've watched the inability of this opposition, in their immaturity... to step back from... confrontation with the government into a movement that is moving toward collaboration with the government that would work together... to lay the groundwork to a path to genuine democratic elections..."
"...We throw around this word here in the West "democracy... we don't even describe what we mean by it. We define it by OUR terms, thinking, as we sit here in our comfortable, cozy secure homes, that we are describing something that they understand [in Egypt]. No, no, no... we must educate them as to what we mean by democracy and help them pursue that idea..."
