Regimes Quotes - Page 21

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

  Junot Diaz

  Shadow, Saws, Grew Up

  "Old friends Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman talk shop". Interview with Miwa Messer, www.csmonitor.com. September 14, 2012.

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• A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

  John Cusack

  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

  "A War on Terror by Any Other Name" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Iran, Talking

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• 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

  Justice For All, Liberty, Foundation

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• No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say". "NBC News", www.nbcnews.com. August 27, 2013.

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• 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

  Shining, Heroism, Moments

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• I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

  Tony Blair

  Hands, Survival, Abhorrent

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• I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

  Jo Brand

  Nice, Home, Arms

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• Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

  Bill Bryson

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Machines

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

  George W. Bush

  Love, Peace, World

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Men, Iraq

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Choices, Stability

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wish, Cost, Sometimes

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• My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

  Shimon Peres

  Struggle, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Middle East, Hegemony

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• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Purpose, Demand

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• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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• What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

  Jimmy Wales

  Information Knowledge, Hands, People

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• I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

  Ben Whishaw

  Workout, Gone, Seems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Made

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

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Tyrants, Warning, Toothless

  "Wolfowitz Praises Poland's Emergence as NATO Leader" by John D. Banusiewicz, archive.defense.gov. October 5, 2004.

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• To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Morning, Yoga, Dancing

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

  Evgeny Morozov

  Stupid, People, Dictator

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