Democracy Quote by Jacques Chirac

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

— Prince Hassan bin Talal

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce…

— Stephen F. Lynch

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

— Vladimir Putin

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

— Omar Bongo

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

— Vladimir Putin

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

— George Will

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

— Guido Westerwelle

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

— Malalai Joya

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

— Akbar Ganji

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

— Dilma Rousseff

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

“Army had solicited ideas for a better armored vehicle—to sell to the Iraqis, not for U.S. use.”

— Robert M. Gates