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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.