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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. -- Ronald Reagan
Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. -- Gordon G. Chang
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. -- Paul Samuelson
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. -- Sting
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them. -- Ivan Krastev
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. -- Jurgen Habermas
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
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. -- John Yoo
The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures. -- Ziad Doueiri
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. -- Evgeny Morozov
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is. -- Dick Cheney
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. -- Jon Stewart
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. -- Natan Sharansky
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
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. -- Jurgen Habermas
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that. -- Aaron McGruder
But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that. -- Brent Scowcroft
Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists. -- Brent Scowcroft
We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed. -- Osama bin Laden
Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. -- David Ignatius
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. -- Osama bin Laden
The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. -- Mitch McConnell
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
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. -- Rupert Murdoch
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. -- Shimon Peres
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. -- Stephen Hawking
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. -- Salman Rushdie
There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. -- Alexis Tsipras
You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all. -- Benazir Bhutto
Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. -- Timothy Noah
While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net. -- Vint Cerf
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Several authoritarian regimes reportedly propose to ban anonymity from the web, making it easier to find and arrest dissidents. At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led net crackdown. We operate in about 150 countries around the globe. -- Vint Cerf
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil. -- Noam Chomsky
We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. -- Frank Carlucci
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. -- Rachel Corrie
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past. -- Stephen Kinzer
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes. -- Nick Clegg
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. -- Arabella Weir
Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. -- Harry S. Truman
Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. -- Corinne Maier
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. -- Leopoldo Lopez
People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat. -- Rex W. Tillerson
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. -- Evgeny Morozov
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. -- Evgeny Morozov
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. -- Liu Xiaobo
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. -- Helmut Newton
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. -- Ben Whishaw
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star. -- Biz Stone
If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. -- Hillary Clinton
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. -- Mona Charen
More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined. -- John Ringo
Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world. -- Rob Lowe
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. -- George W. Bush
The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. -- Carl Joachim Friedrich
The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons. -- George W. Bush
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States. -- Dick Cheney
In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse. -- Bret Stephens
We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. -- George W. Bush
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me. -- Margaret Thatcher
One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant. -- Indro Montanelli
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. -- Alvaro de Vasconcelos
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. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes. -- William Hague
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. -- Eugenio Montale
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. -- John Shattuck
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. -- Randall Robinson
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. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Irshad Manji
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism. -- Russell Smith
There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change. -- Samuel P. Huntington
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. -- Earl Blumenauer
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. -- Camille Paglia
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. -- Stephen Hawking
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. -- George Will
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. -- Pankaj Mishra
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. -- Jimmy Wales
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, -- Michael Ignatieff
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community. -- Michael Bloomberg
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over. -- Dick Cheney
The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible. -- Richard Heinberg
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. -- Dambisa Moyo

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