Azerbaijan Quote by Ilham Aliyev

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an…

— Benazir Bhutto

For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in office, he…

— Masha Gessen

This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities.…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in…

— Stephen Kinzer

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process…

— Garry Kasparov

Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

— Steve Schmidt

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who…

— Ali Khamenei

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

— Rupert Murdoch

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as…

— Garry Kasparov

Democracy is about electoral competition.

— Mehbooba Mufti