Regimes Quotes · Page 2

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

— Rand Paul

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

— Rupert Murdoch

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

— John Bolton

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

— Gordon G. Chang

We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

— Jesse Jackson

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

— Dick Cheney

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

— George W. Bush

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

— Stephen Harper

“China, almost uniquely among modern authoritarian regimes, has achieved three successive transfers of power from one living leader to another unrelated one.…

— Arthur R. Kroeber

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual…

— Christopher Hitchens

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

— Henry Giroux

Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid…

— Rand Paul

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet…

— Michel Foucault

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep…

— Robert Klein

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against…

— Omar Bongo

Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be…

— Barack Obama

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures…

— Tom Bethell

Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities.…

— Thabo Mbeki

I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had…

— Garry Kasparov

The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World…

— Edward S. Herman

During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that…

— Noam Chomsky

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…

— Leon Krier

The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced…

— Charles Eisenstein

If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by…

— Richard Pipes

In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough…

— Barack Obama

It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or…

— John Grant

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let…

— Rachel Maddow

Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented…

— Frantz Fanon

The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North…

— Don Feder

Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and…

— Irwin Stone

“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in…

— Eric Weiner

Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination…

— Stephen F. Hayes

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

— Viktor Yushchenko

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

— Richard N. Haass

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

— John Howard

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Noam Chomsky

The idea that laws don't apply to the law-makers is for despotic regimes.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Actually I do believe we need a proper licensed regime that works better and is much more focused on animal welfare.

— Andrea Leadsom

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

— Sue Townsend