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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Only Allah changes the regime.

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.

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

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people.

After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

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