Democracy Imposition Quotes

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

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

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Democracy is not imperialism… Imposing democracy is an oxymoron ….You can’t have democracy instantly.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

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

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.

But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying to dictate their standards from the outside. Of course, that isn't the right way to go either. One cannot impose democracy from the other side of national borders, which is something we ourselves experienced during the communist era. The West's policies toward Eastern Europe, the Helsinki process - none of that really helped us.

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..

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

General Macarthur did not bring democracy to the Japanese. If anyone, it was Curtis Lemay.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.