Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Elwyn Brooks White Democracy • Half • People • Politics • Recurrent • Right • Suspicion • Time
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Vladimir Putin Democracy • Human Rights • Nobody • Road
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' Vladimir Putin America • Brute • Democracy • Force • Millions • Model • Relying • Solely • Together • World • You
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. Vladimir Putin Another • Democracy • Option • Outside • Political • Realization • Russian • Standards • Us
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Vladimir Putin Big • Countries • Democracy • Democratic Traditions • Finding • Long • Rich • Small
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world. Vladimir Putin Democracy • Democratic Principles • Political • Political Choice • Say • Share • Stress • Universal • Whole • World
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 us from outside. Vladimir Putin Democracy • National • People • Power • Realisation • Russian • Selfgovernment • Traditions • Us
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts. Vladimir Putin Astray • Choice • Democracy • Direction • Doubts • Early • Led • Nobody • People • Russian
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