Silvan Shalom Quotes

Zaire's one-party system is the most elaborate form of democracy

America simply prefers to deal with dictators.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the frontline between freedom and auto_cracy.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

We're not a democracy.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

Russia is an Evil Empire.

Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Freedom in the Arab world is synonymous with disorder.

Not a single Arab ruler is a willing participant in democratic reform. Their regimes are festooned with opportunists attached to their financial and political privileges.

People always suffer for what governments have done.