Regimes Quotes - Page 31

• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Difficulty

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• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Soldier

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• As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

  Jason Stearns

  Evil, Interest, Greater Good

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• The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Government, Order, Law

  "If I am assassinated".

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• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Military, Liberty, Way

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• The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Running, Long, People

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• In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

  Chinua Achebe

  Life, Asking, Inspired

  A Man of the People ch. 13 (1966)

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Organization, Long

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

  C.J. Sansom

  Giving, Spy, Stories

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• The biggest threat to the regime is information.

  John Baird

  Information, Threat

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• Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

  George W. Bush

  Wmds In Iraq, Government, Mass Destruction

  Address to the Nation -- Ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, delivered 17 March 2003 from the Cross Hall at the White House

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• The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Fighting, Iraq, Long

  "Will Bush Suck the GOP Down the Drain With Him?" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2007.

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• You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

  Ryan Adams

  Army, Sushi, Cleaning

  "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.

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• If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.

  Julian Assange

  Writing, Thinking, Rights

  "Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter". wikileaks.org. November 13, 2013.

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• The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.

  Juan Williams

  Too Much, Clinton, Regime Change

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Аt the end of the day, unless Iran and Russia want to have a rump Allawite state and a rump Sunni state, and a Kurdish state, then they're going to have to come to the table and bring about an end to this regime.

  Adam Schiff

  Russia, Iran, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Economy, Terror, Gaza

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• International inspectors are on the ground and Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. Inspectors will monitor Iran's key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For decades to come, inspectors will have access to Iran's entire nuclear supply chain. In other words, if Iran tries to cheat - if they try to find build a bomb covertly, we will catch them.

  Barack Obama

  Keys, Iran, Years

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Putin has succeeded in many ways in making Russia an essential player there. He seems to have stabilized the Assad regime. And he has limited the options for the U.S. and its allies, you know. He has air control over a significant amount of territory. And he can prevent the allies from establishing a no-fly zone there.

  Corey Flintoff

  Player, Russia, Air

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Couple, War, Years

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, People, Parent

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Moral, Kind, Republican

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Government, People

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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