Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

In a democracy, when you have 20 million people in the street, you resign. Unfortunately, we don’t have a process of recall or impeachment as you have. It was a popular uprising rejecting Mr. Morsi’s continuing in power. Unfortunately, people had to call on the army to intervene. The army had to intervene because short of that, we would have ended up in a civil war.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

There are radical elements who don't want me to finish my term. But I will not resign.

I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.

There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially plunging Venezuela into a civil war.

America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.