“The United States allegedly presses for democratic change in the region, and when it happens, democracy brings to power anti-US parties.”

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”

“For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.”

“Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.”

“Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.”

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”