#regime

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arab world #army #believers #citizens #illusion

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#always #external #internal #maintain #mobilize

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#between #dictators #external #genuine #least

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arafat #attention #fact #harsh #how

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. ↗

— Sting

#about #been #day #did #five

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#contrary #iraqi #kurdish #no-fly #people

I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#artificial #away #baby #because #been

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#greatest #greatest threat #humanity #meeting #nuclear

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

#brave #citizens #day #democratic #each