Vladimir Putin Quotes

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

Mexico is a competent, strong state. A little corrupt here and there, a little ineffective here and there, but a strong state.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organization.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

A stable democratic system cannot be established without the effective participation of the mainstream, moderate, Islamic movement.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

When you start to look at completing the development of a modern professional army, when you talk about maturing a democracy, when you talk about development and the economic conditions that have to be addressed, a decade is not too short a period of time to talk about.

Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting agreements signed by former governments.

Obviously, people feeling that their government is responsive to them is in the best interest of the United States. It's in the best interest of the U.K., it's in the best interest of countries all over the world.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account