#regime

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

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

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

#around #because #believe #capable #doing

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

#bin #deal #get #going #laden

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#apartheid #belong #berlin #between #blacks

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

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#creation #force #important #most #regime

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