Vladimir Putin Democracy Quotations

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy 14 years ago, independently without pressure from the outside, ... This is our final choice, and we have no way back.

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

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

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

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

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

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

I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.