Quotes About Coup

What is remarkable about the discussion on October 29, 1963, is that a broad array of top officials voiced doubts about the coup, including JFK himself, without any actual effect on the course of events

President Kennedy does not announce a clear decision, but the group proceeds as if the United States does support the coup.

The coup bound the United States to South Vietnam in an embrace that proved disastrous to them both. In a very real sense, it was Dulles's final legacy.

Lenin's big gambles—accepting imperial German aid to return to Russia; the coup in Petrograd; the capitulatory separate peace with Germany—had paid off.

A Foreign Office diplomat in London wrote in the margins of a Tehran report: "I tend to the view that Musaddiq still enjoys some public support, more than some of our close friends would have us believe. . . . Coup d'état may well be the only answer.

I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic.

If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.

Technically speaking, Khrushchev's coup followed the methods of his dead and denounced master very closely. He too needed an outside force in order to win power in the party hierarchy, and he used the support of Marshal Zhukov and the army exactly the same way Stalin had used his relationships to the secret police in the succession struggle of thirty years ago.

for just as Stalin had never hesitated to purge his police cadres and liquidate their chief, so Khrushchev had followed up his inner-party maneuvers by removing Zhukov from the Presidium and Central Committee of the party, to which he had been elected after the coup, as well as from his post as highest commander of the army.

We'll see how big a coup it is, Zuckerman said. Zoom is moving into golf in a very big way. Huge. Humongous. Gigantic. Enormous, Myron said. Mammoth, Win added. Colossal. Titanic. Bunyanesque. Win smiled. Brobdingnagian, he said. Oooo, Myron said. Good one. Zuckerman shook his head. You guy are funnier than The Three Stooges without Curly.

A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup.

For the entire four years of the greatest Presidential term of our lifetime, Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi and radical Socialists in her party attempted coup after coup against President Donald Trump.

was indeed a coup attempt and nothing less than "treason," he said, and Trump might still be looking for what Milley called a "Reichstag moment.

But it is a sad state of affairs for our country that we've been taken over by a dictator who used force against another branch of government. And he's still sitting there. He should have been arrested. He should have been arrested on the spot. He had a coup d'état against us so he can stay in office. There should be some way to remove him. But anyway, it's no use wasting your time on this. I appreciate that. Thank you, General. Thank you.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, leading up to its first coup in March 1963, the Ba'th in general, and Saddam Hussein in particular, had relations with the US intelligence services. On the testimony of King Hussein of Jordan, we learn that the CIA collaborated actively with the Ba'th in its coup of March 1963, which led to the killing of thousands of communist opponents.

Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.

Fortunately for Obiang, coup-prone African governments rolling in oil but lacking in arms and intelligence to defend their bounty had a discreet alternative to the Pentagon and the C.I.A. for defense support: Israel.

The rain is streaming down and shrouding the outside world from my sight. Long may it do so. I don't need the world any more, and no one in the world needs me. I was in the clinic while the shooting and the coup d'etat took place, but the idea of abandoning the cure had begun insidiously to grow in my mind even before the fighting started in the streets of Moscow. I have the morphine to thank for making me brave. I'm not afraid of rifle fire now.

All good coups begin with the deposing of the current leader.

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well - resources obviously came from big private-sector backers. But all through that period the bulk of the rank and file party were what the party has always been, a socialist party.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

When you are living under emergency measures, by definition you no longer have a functioning democracy. I say these days, "the coup has already taken place." What is stunning is how few people even now recognize the degree to which the country was living under dictatorial measures.