Benazir Bhutto Quotes

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

If when I die I am still a dictator I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a stable base for a democratic government, I will be remembered forever in every home in China.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Where annual elections end, there tyranny begins..

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Democracy passes into despotism.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

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 believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

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.

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Mobutu was mainstream Africa. Every independent African Government was a one-party state at the time. None allowed opposition. Every one of them had rent-seeking political leaders. The only thing that set Mobutu apart was how ostentatious his theft was.

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

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Democracy takes time. Dictatorship is quicker, but too many people get shot.