Regimes Quotes - Page 6

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Way, Economic, Undermining

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• . . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

  Wole Soyinka

  Gun, Play, Voice

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• A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.

  Ted Koppel

  Opportunity, Blow, Years

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• The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

  Carl Joachim Friedrich

  Perfection, Police, Evolution

  Carl Joachim Friedrich (1972). “The pathology of politics: violence, betrayal, corruption, secrecy, and propaganda”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

  George W. Bush

  President, Gathering, Hussein

  "Showdown: Iraq". "CNN Presents" with Aaron Brown (CNN/New York Times special report), www.cnn.com. September 29, 2002.

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• I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough to give Iraq to come into compliance with the international order. And I think to myself how many Iraqi citizens died under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during those 4,200 odd days, and I think to myself how many more citizens of how many nations, the United States, Israel, or any other neighbor would die if Saddam Hussein went unchecked, though I am just grieved by the sacrifice of our brave men and women, but I think ultimately the greater good is served.

  Richard Armitage

  Eye, Sacrifice, Men

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• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Levels, Economic

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Government, Gaza Strip, Territory

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• I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

  Katherine Heigl

  Workout, Hate, Weekend

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• We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and in Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly.

  Donald Trump

  Islamic, Egypt, Isis

  "Donald Trump Acceptance Speech Full Transcript" by Rajiv Poddar, scribie.com. July 23, 2016.

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• I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

  Rashida Jones

  Mom, My Mom

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• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, World, Soviet

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• All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  America, United States, Rooftops

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• I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Iran, Opposites

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

  Barack Obama

  Self, Views, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international financial institutions. They followed it most rigorously. Almost everyone who's followed those rules, including the Western countries, have suffered. And in Latin America they suffered severely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Latin, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others in exchange for cash. Then when she left, she made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests in less than two years - secret speeches that she does not want to reveal to the public. Lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments totally own her, and that will never change if she ever became president.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Two, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Military, Use, Reason Why

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: "This government is not capable of running the economy"". Interview, content.time.com. November 15, 1999.

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• There are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Fighting, Say Anything

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Aug 26, 2013

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• Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

  William Hague

  Decision, Would Be, Defining

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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.

  Nigel Gibson

  Leader, Independence, Principles

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  Joan Collins

  Summer, Use It Or Lose It, Years

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• If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.

  Riane Eisler

  Religious, Top Down, Rights

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think the accurate description for the George W. Bush administration is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United States, I must add that I don't want to make too much of the distinction between the Bush regime and its predecessors. I don't see a great deal of difference.

  John Pilger

  Military, Thinking, Differences

  Source: progressive.org

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