Jill Stein Quotes

It is a crime now in my country to talk about the government's crimes.

There are no longer opponents of Putin's policy, and if there are, they are mentally ill and should be sent to prophylactic health examination.

The exercise of politics is criminalized in Venezuela.

Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

The suppression of the Socialist press has actually been more rapid and efficient in this republic than it was in the German Empire after the declaration of war. And as for our celebrated Anglo-Saxon tradition of free speech—you can’t even collect your thoughts without getting arrested for unlawful assemblage!

All collective action, such as declarations, or even petitions, are prohibited in Russia; the Government, by an official fiction is supposed to know all the needs of its subjects

There are no political prisoners, only imprisoned politicians.

if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them.