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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views. -- Bob Woodward
As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses. -- Ala Bashir
Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life. -- Ala Bashir
Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. -- Elliott Abrams
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. -- Fay Vincent
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. -- Jalal Talabani
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. -- Elliott Abrams
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations. -- Hugo Chavez
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. -- Shane Smith
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament. -- Jose Mujica
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. -- Orhan Pamuk
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. -- Edwidge Danticat
On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second. -- Stephen Kinzer
Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution. -- Ahmed Zewail
I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States. -- Isabel Allende
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. -- Charles Jencks
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. -- Gore Vidal
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region. -- Noam Chomsky
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. -- Isabel Allende
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.' -- Chris Pratt
I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. -- Brigitte Nielsen
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. -- Pablo Picasso
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then. -- Kamisese Mara
Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a conspiracy, on the economic crisis, that he blamed the high inflation that sabotaged him on the United States, and that he was frequently accusing the little lambs of Nixon and Kissinger of a coup. But everything became known later. -- Nicolas Maduro
Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off. -- Nick Nolte
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. -- Barbara Tuchman
What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat. -- Margaret Thatcher
The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] -- Pierre Corneille
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'Ã©tats, the removal of legitimate power. -- Vladimir Putin
In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. -- John McCain
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing. -- Nicholas Meyer
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grÃ¢ce- which is called passion. -- Clarice Lispector
NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation. -- Sergei Lavrov
It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy. -- Gore Vidal
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. -- Alexis Tsipras
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup. -- Jane Goodall
I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions. -- Marco Rubio
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive. -- Manohla Dargis
A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder. -- Edward Luttwak
There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself -- Gene Sharp
Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power? -- Sergei Lavrov
The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth. -- Alex Winter
More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people. -- Traian Basescu

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