Fethullah Gulen Quotes

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

Is it possible to tolerate the state order being undermined from morning to night because doing so is supposedly a democratic obligation.

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.