Quotable: Putin says he's Gandhi's democratic heir

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Monday, June 4, 2007 - 11:32 AM Share

In a lengthy interview with the Times of London, Putin insists he's the only one who really 'gets' democracy:

Of course, I am a pure and absolute democrat," [Putin] said. "But you know what the problem is – not a problem, a real tragedy – that I am alone. There are no such pure democrats in the world. Since Mahatma Gandhi, there has been no one."

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