Concerned Quote by Wole Soyinka

“One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is…

— Evan Osnos

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

— Jean Rostand

They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every…

— Erykah Badu

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to…

— Derek Chollet

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their…

— Anonymous

“This Syrian circus/crisis we are going through is hilarious... It’s like watching some thug killing another person and asking him for his bullets but…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in…

— Stephen Hadley

“Why is this so critical to the ruling junta? Because they know that the moment the People realize that their common enemies are not…

— Joseph Befumo

Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism…

— George W Bush

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession…

— Rand Paul

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies…

— Vaclav Havel

We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt…

— Mitchell Reiss