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Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

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Akbar Ganji
Age: 54
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When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
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