Regimes Quotes - Page 28

• Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Ties, Terrorist Groups

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• If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

  George W. Bush

  Softball, Years, Nuclear

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

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• The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.

  George W. Bush

  Games, Iraq, Retreat

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• The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test.

  George W. Bush

  Finals, Tests, Today

  "CNN Breaking News" with Leon Harris, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2002.

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• The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

  Dick Cheney

  Rights, People, Hatred

  2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.

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• Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.

  Elif Safak

  Fall, Turkeys, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some criticize me, thinking I'm too tolerant of the clerical regime in Iran. In response, I have to say, I have served time in prison, I have lost my position [as a judge]. Do I need to prove that I am brave? Do I need to be killed?

  Shirin Ebadi

  Thinking, Iran, Judging

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• It is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so-called 'Islamic regimes' such as Saudi Arabia, Iran - and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan - they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Iran, Doubt

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• We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Crazy, Ideas, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.

  Rand Paul

  War, Ideas, Evil

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

  Barack Obama

  Air, Challenges, Done

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

  Immortal Technique

  Past, Echoes, Rome

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Thinking, Animal

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Vacuums, Dangerous, Security

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

  Nigel Gibson

  Acting, Violence, Colonialism

  "Franz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.jadaliyya.com. Aug 17, 2012.

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• Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.

  Roberto Esposito

  Country, Philosophical, Europe

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Attitude, Fall, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Couple, Believe, Qatar

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Law, Police Violence

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

  Jill Stein

  Disaster, Regime Change, Has Beens

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Every instance of this stuff, from this tax return business to the illegality. You know who is actually breaking the law in this country. It's every Democrat you can think of in this regime, at the DOJ, and Hillary Clinton and her e-mail server. [Donald] Trump hasn't broken one law yet. The media is breaking the law. Hillary is breaking the law.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Skills, Nuclear

  Source: www.politico.com

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