Ambiguity Quote by Richard Lugar

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

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

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

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy…

— Timothy D. Snyder

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

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

— Vladimir Putin

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

— Roman Abramovich

I would like to see Russia develop as democratically as possible. But when we judge Russia we must also consider where the country is…

— Angela Merkel

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