Ali Abdullah Saleh Quotes

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.

Liberty and Independence forever.

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico.

The Sudanese people decide who rules them.

We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.

This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.

Hong Kong was promised democracy under the framework known as 'one country, two systems,' and China is ignoring this promise. The international community should be more attuned to this. It matters.

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.