Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
We were on the way to democracy. We didn't say that we are fully democratic, we were on the way, we were moving forward. Slowly or fast, that's subjective, cannot be objective, that's always subjective. But we're moving forward in that regard.
