Democracy Quote by Vladimir Putin

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

— Prince Hassan bin Talal

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

— Anonymous

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

— Omar Bongo

Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society.…

— Bashar al-Assad

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

— Barack Obama

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

— Mahathir Mohamad

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

— Geert Wilders

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

— Charles Lindbergh