Country Quote by Yusuf al-Qaradawi

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

— Elliott Abrams

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

— Silvan Shalom

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to…

— Walid Jumblatt

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

— Jack Schwartz

Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about…

— Ahmed Chalabi

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

— Geert Wilders

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

— Chuck Hagel

Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and…

— Noam Chomsky

All of my novels are democracies.

— Amos Oz

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

— John Fund