Democracy Export Quotes

Neoconservatives habitually overstate America’s ability to export democracy.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million.

I think that there is a limit on how far you can export democracy.

I do think, from the other side, that George W. ush was somewhat of an innocent in his thinking about what Ronald Reagan did during the Cold War and by bringing democracy to Eastern Europe. I think he believed that he could do the same thing by bringing democracy - or Midland, Texas, really - to the Middle East. I truly think he felt it was possible. "I want to do for the Middle East what Reagan did for the Soviet Union."

In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance?

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them..

I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

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