Sam Brownback Quotes

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

The cause of self-determination in Catalonia is no different to other citizen causes that fight for a fairer, more democratic future, as we've seen in Chile, Lebanon and Hong Kong.

Government is waging war against the people.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

It is doubtful that President Mubarak or the Saudi Royal family will allow elections that might sweep them from office.

While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

Hong Kong's government needs to bear most of the responsibility for the Fishball Revolution.

The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.