Regimes Quotes

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.

The biggest threat to the regime is information.

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Advances in the technology of communications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes: Fax machines enable dissidents to bypass state-controlled print media; direct-dial telephone makes it difficult for a state to control interpersonal voice communication; and satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.

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.

Only Allah changes the regime.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

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.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

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

I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

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

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

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

The animal testing regime... is utterly futile

You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

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.

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

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