11.   Gingrich, like all the other Republicans, have had nothing to say about Nigeria and the utter failure of American oil companies to promote democracy.

12.   Freedom House is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes democracy around the world.

13.   Gingrich also said that having U.S. companies trading with China helped to promote democracy in the Asian nation.

14.   He has been struggling to promote democracy in his homeland since he was a teen-ager at Beijing University.

15.   He said the Clinton administration must recognize the right of governments to promote democracy according to their history and level of economic development.

16.   He works for the Washington, D.C.- based International Republican Institute, a federally funded nonprofit group that tries to promote democracy in less developed countries.

17.   His group is an American nonprofit organization that promotes democracy.

18.   In March, a study by the Congress Online Project found that e-mail, instead of promoting democracy, may be having the opposite effect.

19.   It is a reminder that economic reform can help to promote democracy.

20.   Ironically, he says, efforts to promote democracy may have weakened the power of the state.