Country Quote by Garry Kasparov

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

— Condoleezza Rice

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political…

— Condoleezza Rice

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

— Marine Le Pen

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

— Gilles Deleuze

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

— Reuven Rivlin

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard…

— Condoleezza Rice

If India is not too democratic, it will be like China in terms of development.

— Mahathir Mohamad

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people.…

— George Soros

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

— Jose Maria Aznar