Vladimir Putin Quotes

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Democracy is good for world peace.