Democracy Quotes by Vladimir Putin

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

— Vladimir Putin

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to…

— Vladimir Putin

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those…

— Vladimir Putin

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries,…

— Vladimir Putin

I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic…

— Vladimir Putin

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision…

— Vladimir Putin

The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free…

— Vladimir Putin

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions…

— Vladimir Putin

How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think…

— Vladimir Putin

Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not…

— Vladimir Putin

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards…

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray.…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin