Country Quote by Thaksin Shinawatra

I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate.…

— Martina Navratilova

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

— George Aiken

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

— Augusto Pinochet

I have not given up my faith in democracy - it remains the worst form of government except for all the others - but…

— Max Boot

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

— Augusto Pinochet

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it…

— Wael Ghonim

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

— Arthur Frommer

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

— Ferdinand Marcos

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and…

— Condoleezza Rice