"This is a way of telling them we want to see if you've been telling the truth for eight years" about accepting real democracy.

What I should have said was, Elson will be able to convince them not to accept democracy.

Although his cancer had already been diagnosed, he was a key strategist among the Congress leaders who prodded the white Government into accepting democracy.

But he still rules in partnership with a military that has never accepted democracy and is responsible for grave human rights abuses.

As a quid pro quo, those released prisoners also have to move on and accept democracy.

It seems that this trend will continue, and many African countries have been forced to accept democracy to foster economic and political justice for all.

All Polish trade unions accept the social market economy, parliamentary democracy and European unification.

We could never accept Western-style democracy - simply because it is Western.

I stress substantive acceptance because Turkey has not refused to accept democracy formally; hardly anyone in the world today does.

We accept democracy nevertheless, because it is the only way.