Regimes Quotes

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

The animal testing regime... is utterly futile

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

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.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

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

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

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

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people.

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

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

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

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

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