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Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster. -- Jill Stein
For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end. -- Francois Furet
We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. -- Mo Ibrahim
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. -- Samora Machel
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place. -- George W. Bush
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. -- James Lovelock
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that. -- Walid Jumblatt
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. -- John Major
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. -- Ed Markey
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. -- Christopher Hitchens
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. -- Barbara Amiel
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq. -- Elliott Abrams
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. -- William Kirby
Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training. -- Dwayne Johnson
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. -- Robert Mugabe
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. -- Mitt Romney
My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region. -- Shimon Peres
Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. -- Richard Engel
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. -- Christopher Hitchens
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it. -- Bruce Dickinson
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. -- Elliott Abrams
My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded. -- Ban Ki-moon
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat. -- Ryan Adams
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. -- John Carter
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. -- George Orwell
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
Only Allah changes the regime. -- Abdul Salam Zaeef
The animal testing regime... is utterly futile -- Michael Rawlins
The biggest threat to the regime is information. -- John Baird
Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger. -- George W. Bush
China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet. -- John Palfrey
I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. -- Theresa May
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography. -- Ali Khamenei
Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training. -- Hannah Kearney
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament. -- Tony Blair
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality. -- Barry Humphries
I've always said that the Cuban regime will not change politically. -- Marco Rubio
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom. -- Rashida Jones
The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime. -- Moshe Katsav
The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people. -- Moshe Katsav
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent. -- Dolph Lundgren
Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall. -- Rashid Khalidi
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. -- Nancy Pearcey
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. -- Golda Meir
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime. -- Ayelet Shaked
After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS. -- Richard Engel
The fall of the Syrian regime is in the interest of America and Israel. -- Hassan Nasrallah
A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous. -- Christopher Hitchens
The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change. -- Juan Williams
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. -- Judd Gregg
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake. -- Rand Paul
How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change? -- Susan Sarandon
The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test. -- George W. Bush
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. -- P. D. James
We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people. -- George W. Bush
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. -- William Greider
By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism. -- Jim Gerlach
The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . It has developed weapons of mass death. -- George W. Bush
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran. -- John Bolton
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. -- Nadine Gordimer
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'. -- Stjepan Mesic
They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. -- David Gower
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. -- William Eldridge Odom
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'. -- Stjepan Mesic
One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. -- Joe Slovo
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. -- Jalal Talabani
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. -- Albert Einstein
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. -- Jon Stewart
There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people. -- Viktor Yushchenko
North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. -- George W. Bush
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." -- Ali Khamenei
No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction. -- Lindsey Graham
Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful. -- Bashar al-Assad
The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime. -- Henning von Tresckow
Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order. -- John Lewis Gaddis
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism -- Niall Ferguson
We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. -- Donald Trump
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple. -- Shaun White
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. -- Vaclav Klaus
There's not a country on earth that doesn't feel that it might be invaded by Donald Trump's regime. -- Tom Morello
I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families. -- Junot Diaz
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. -- Chuck Schumer
Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned and this regime is on its way to annihilation. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release. -- Akbar Ganji
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. -- Salman Rushdie
You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged. -- Adi Godrej
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. -- Stephen Harper
Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. -- Elliott Abrams
The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy. -- Richard N. Haass
Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. -- Noam Chomsky
I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law. -- Vladimir Putin
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. -- Kim Young-sam
Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. -- Salman Rushdie
I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective. -- George W. Bush
The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime. -- Mike Pence
President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda. -- Richard Engel
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. -- Jean Rostand
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. -- Viktor Yushchenko
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority. -- William Hague
As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ... -- Ann Scott
His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists. -- Dick Cheney
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. -- Todd Akin
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime. -- Benito Mussolini
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded. -- Stuart Kauffman

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