Military Regime Quotes

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the return of the military. They ask, 'When are you coming back?'

The most blood-boltered coup may result merely in a substitution of interchangeable military cliques.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.