Vladimir Putin Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

  Vladimir Putin

  Teaching, People, Democracy

  "Putin Says West Forcing Will On World", www.rferl.org. February 10, 2007.

• Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

  Vladimir Putin

  Democracy, Legal System

  "Russian President Putin on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

• The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Choices, Democracy

• Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

  Vladimir Putin

  Democracy, Development, Internals

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, People

  "President and President Putin Discuss Strong U.S.-Russian Partnership". Statement in press release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2005.

• Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

  Vladimir Putin

  America, Democracy, World

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

• Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strength, Strong, Russia

• Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Democracy, Different

  "Russian President Putin on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

• The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Reality, Rights

• For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Political, Democracy

• Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

  Vladimir Putin

  Party, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, People, Democracy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Democracy, Uniforms, Models

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

  Vladimir Putin

  Law, Democracy, Important

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

• We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

  Vladimir Putin

  Iraq, Democracy, Want

  "Bush Blames Hezbollah for Mideast Violence". The Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 200.

• How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Thinking, Russia

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

• I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Democracy, Revolution

  "Russian President Putin on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

• Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Japan, Presidential

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

• I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Talking, Numbers

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