American democracy Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

“As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly…

— Michael Parenti

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.

— Adam Schiff

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

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

— Garry Kasparov

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

— John Charles Polanyi

Everyone agrees Russia has been working to undermine our democracy, as well as democracies throughout Europe, including Central and Eastern Europe.

— Tom Suozzi

We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began…

— Marvin Kalb

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