Regimes Quotes - Page 16

• I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Want, West

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, Weapons, Mass

  Speech on Iraq Resolution, The Rose Garden, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 2, 2002.

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• The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Rights, Practice

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• The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Government, Violation Of Human Rights

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• When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Russia, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Evil, Gains, Reason

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the ultimate goal of the U.S. administration in Iran is regime change, to put into power a pro-Western government that will eliminate the strategic challenge to U.S. interests and, at the same time, allow the lifting of sanctions and allowing American oil companies to do business with Iran.

  Michael Klare

  Struggle, Thinking, Government

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

  Lindsey Graham

  Islamic, Mass Destruction, Worst Nightmares

  Cnn Reagan Library Debate in Simi Valley, California, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 16th, 2015.

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• In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find a regime that oppresses people and hinders progress, both socially and politically.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Leaving, Foundation

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Cuba, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Marco Rubio from Sep 21, 2015

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• History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.

  Nicholson Baker

  Way, Sides, Action

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Fall, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.

  Andre Dubus

  Running, Sunday, Son

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

  John Howard

  War, Iraq, Claims

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• Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.

  Kate Hudson

  Important, Rest Of Your Life, Good Health

  "5 Minutes With...kate Hudson And Goldie Hawn". Beauty Heaven Interview, www.beautyheaven.com.au. June 2, 2014.

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• One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Tired, Desire, Speak

  Source: outwardfromnothingness.com

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• What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

  Alan Menken

  People, Musical, Animated

  Source: collider.com

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• By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Axes, Iran

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• 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

  Three, Brazil, Flesh

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• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Short Life, Eye

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.

  Francois Furet

  Revolution, Birth, Reason

  François Furet (1981). “Interpreting the French Revolution”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.

  Thomas Mapfumo

  Mean, Zimbabwe, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Iran

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Taxation, Levels

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.349, Regnery Publishing

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