quotes about Regimes
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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Only Allah changes the regime.
-- Abdul Salam ZaeefSource : "Pakistanis Warn That Post-Taliban Talk May Be Presumptuous", www.foxnews.com. October 02, 2001.
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Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri -
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
-- Azar Nafisi -
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I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.
-- Henning von TresckowSource : "Henning Von Tresckow: Ein Preuße Gegen Hitler". Book by Bodo Scheurig, 1980.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
-- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
-- James Lovelock -
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.
-- Jason Stearns -
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
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The biggest threat to the regime is information.
-- John Baird -
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
-- John Major -
China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.
-- John Palfrey -
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
-- Jon Stewart -
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So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
-- Kim Dae-jung -
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
-- Leopoldo LopezSource : "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.
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The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
-- Liu XiaoboSource : "Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?" by Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2010.
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If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
-- Marcel Proust -
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I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
-- Mary ArcherSource : "Mary Archer transcript: 'Very little surprises me, I have to say'". Interview with John Humphrys, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2001.
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The animal testing regime... is utterly futile
-- Michael Rawlins -
The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.
-- Moshe Katsav -
The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.
-- Moshe KatsavSource : "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
-- Nadine GordimerSource : "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.
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Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
-- Paul WolfowitzSource : "Wolfowitz Praises Poland's Emergence as NATO Leader" by John D. Banusiewicz, archive.defense.gov. October 5, 2004.
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Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
-- Peggy Guggenheim -
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
-- Rashida Jones -
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If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.
-- Recep Tayyip ErdoganSource : "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview With Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.
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In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
-- River Phoenix -
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
-- Ruben Blades -
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Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
-- Rupert Murdoch -
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
-- Sting -
How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?
-- Susan Sarandon -
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
-- Svetlana AlliluyevaSource : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
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I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
-- Theresa May -
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
-- Tony Blair -
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
-- Vaclav KlausSource : "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
-- William Greider -
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Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
-- William Hague -
What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
-- Alan MenkenSource : Source: collider.com
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Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.
-- Benjamin E. SasseSource : Source: www.sfgate.com
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I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.
-- John Gimlette -
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You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.
-- Rashid Khalidi -
The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.
-- Ayelet ShakedSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
-- Carlos Mesa -
People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.
-- Rex W. TillersonSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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