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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. -- Kamisese Mara
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
We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were. -- Brit Hume
What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. -- Jalal Talabani
In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. -- John McCain
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
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.] -- Jean de La Fontaine
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
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
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life. -- Gough Whitlam
It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million -- Al Jardine
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
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
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. -- Jose Saramago
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 myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization' as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway. -- Catherine Austin Fitts
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. -- Eduardo Galeano
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
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. -- Paul Farmer
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. -- Jo Nesbo
Miracles are God's coups d'etat. -- Sophie Swetchine
Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented. -- Vladimir Putin
I feel sure that coups d'Ã©tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'Ã©tat, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way. -- John Ralston Saul
Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable. -- Vladimir Putin

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