The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.
2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.
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