Regimes Quotes

Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

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.

The United States must learn to rebuild states after overturning their regimes.

To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

Mature democracies may not fight one another, but immature ones do- and are even more prone to war than authoritarian regimes.

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

I've always said that the Cuban regime will not change politically.

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

Only Allah changes the regime.

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