Citing Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Vladimir Putin

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

— Sergei Ivanov

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

— Vladimir Putin

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective,…

— Vladimir Putin

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

— Prince Philip

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I would like to see Russia develop as democratically as possible. But when we judge Russia we must also consider where the country is…

— Angela Merkel

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

— Vladimir Putin

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from…

— Herbert Hoover

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the…

— Vaclav Klaus