Democracy Quote by Condoleezza Rice

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and…

— Condoleezza Rice

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

— Kay Granger

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in…

— George W. Bush

For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional stability, there…

— Richard N. Haass

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

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

— Silvan Shalom

You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

— Amartya Sen

Democracies are not very stable.

— Rush Limbaugh