Quotes of: Regimes Keyword

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

Jim Gerlach

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Condoleezza Rice

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise.

William Odom

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Paul Wolfowitz

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

Richard Engel

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Shimon Peres

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Paulo Coelho

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Jurgen Habermas

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Kathryn Bigelow

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Robert Mugabe

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Evgeny Morozov

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Benazir Bhutto

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

Evgeny Morozov

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Chuck Schumer

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Helmut Newton

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

Elliott Abrams

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Junot Diaz