#regimes

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#communications #control #created #facebook #internet

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#caesar #claimed #give #god #jurisdiction

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#fundamental #hostility #part #regimes #religion

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#nothing #original #power #reason #regimes

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#everywhere #proved #regimes #technology #telecommunications

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

#america #apartheid #course #dictators #latin

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

#because #been #best #debate #diplomatic

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

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything