english: So we need to acknowledge that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting. But in order to do so we need to get away from instrumental arguments.
non_english: Znači treba da prihvatimo bez obzira na neodređenu statistiku i činjenicu da 84 posto ljudi u Britaniji misli da je politika uništena, uprkos činjenici da smo, tokom mog boravka u Iraku 2003., anketirali ljude i pitali kom političkom sistemu daju prednost, dobili odgovor da sedam posto želi američki, pet posto želi francuski, tri posto želi britanski i skoro 40 posto želi sistem kao u Dubaiju koji, u stvari, nije demokratska država, ali je relativno uspešna manja monarhija, demokratija je vrednost za koju treba da se borimo. Ali da bismo to uradili, moramo se udaljiti od pomoćnih dokaza.