Democracy Quote by Michael Caputo

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests…

— Garry Kasparov

My voters, my core audience, are young people in Russia, so I actually do what I need to have their support.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the…

— Vladimir Putin

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should…

— Vladimir Putin

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

— Vladimir Putin

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

— Pavel Durov

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their…

— Joseph Stalin

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy…

— Garry Kasparov

“Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.”

— Ken Follett

Russian government attacked our election.

— Rachel Maddow

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The Russians succeeded, I believe, beyond their wildest expectations. Their first objective in the election was to sow discontent, discord, and disruption in our…

— James R. Clapper