Quotes About Politics

Fashion and politics are almost the same industry, in many regards, because it's about identity, and it's cyclical, and people get really emotive about it.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

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

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

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.

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.

I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.

A 97-percent win is the kind of result you get in a one-party regime.

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.