Bashar al-Assad Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Hurt, Goal, Growth

  ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Political, Democracy, Reform

• It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Democracy, Persons

• You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Self, People, Democracy

• The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Fighting, People

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

• Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Democracy, Different, Culture

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

• We were on the way to democracy. We didn't say that we are fully democratic, we were on the way, we were moving forward. Slowly or fast, that's subjective, cannot be objective, that's always subjective. But we're moving forward in that regard.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Moving, Democracy, Way

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Decision, Political

• Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Reality, Democracy, Culture

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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