Regime Quotes

A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.

The Shah’s regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened.

Of course, everyone knows that I’m also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.

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

And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime.

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

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.