Democracy Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic…

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system -…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Vladimir Putin

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

— J. Stalin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on…

— Vladimir Putin

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

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

— Condoleezza Rice