Quotes About Regime

But if arming Iran to support Israel was insane, the flip side of the policy, in the long run at least, was truly demented: Weinberger and Shultz favored defending Saudi Arabia and the enormous U.S. oil interests there by secretly bolstering the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As a result of their efforts, billions of dollars in aid and weapons were funneled to Saddam's regime.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

Since 1979, the majority of victims of the Iranian regime have been the Iranian people themselves.

His indomitable spirit was uplifting, and unexpected. He wasn't going to let a despotic regime and a bunch of international sanctions get in the way of life, no way! Ironically, it reminded me of all the best elements of the United States, that go-get-'em, can-do positivity that is such a heartening aspect of American culture. It wasn't a comparison I was expecting to make in Iran, but I was already becoming used to being confounded and surprised at every turn.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

an aging man imprisoned on Goli Otok as an enemy of the regime

Yes," he said. "But what is the character of the regime? And what are the mistakes which we were saying it contains?" "First," I said, "the very thing that defines the regime is one. Reflect: if a man were to choose pilots of ships in that way—on the basis of property assessments—and wouldn't entrust one to a poor man, even if he were a more skilled pilot—" "They would make a poor sailing," he said.

Sodom resembled twentieth-century totalitarian regimes, where state employees were stationed in apartment buildings to monitor everyone who entered the building, a level of oppression those fortunate to live in free societies have difficulty fathoming.

Aç?k konu?al?m: Her rejim, hatta en otoriter olan bile de?i?ken bir denge durumunda ayakta kalabilir, bu nedenle kendi bask? donan?m?n?n varl???n? sürekli olarak hakl? göstermesi gerekir ve bask? uygulayacak bir ?eylere gereksinme duyar.

Let's be frank: every regime, even the most authoritarian, survives in a situation of unstable equilibrium, whereby it needs to justify constantly the existence of its repressive apparatus, therefore of something to repress.

Millions of Russians found themselves gripped by a tyranny incomparably worse than that of the Czar.

Vietnam to defend democracy, and remembers me responding that the Saigon regime was no democracy.

President Trump reversed the previous administration's disastrous policy of appeasing Cuba and has implemented a vigorous sanctions regime against Nicaragua. Our hope is that the people of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua will one day live in democracies like the rest of their neighbors.

Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them, so Trump has gone across us. Free speech is first among equals when we look at what is being violated by this new regime.

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence and blatant violation of human rights.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

Revolutions can occur only when significant portions of the elites, and especially the military, defect or stand aside. Indeed, in most revolutions it is the elites who mobilize the population to help them overthrow the regime.

most controversial of these movies—one whose production had been virtually commissioned by OWI and encouraged by Roosevelt himself—was Warner Bros.' Mission to Moscow, which seemed more interested in saluting Stalin and his regime than in praising the grit of the Russian people.

We can trust no one. In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth.