Pat Robertson Quotes

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country.

Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

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

If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around. My hope is that the Democrats will realize where their power lies, and will start taking their cues from the people on the ground and not the other way.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

Right now, I am trying to overthrow the Government of the United States.

By a revolution in the state, the fawning sycophant of yesterday is converted into the austere critic of the present hour.

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

The National Revolution has begun.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

It now really looks as if the Government is about to fall into our hands.

The transition from authoritarianism to democracy is not as easy as it appears in position papers – it is a rambunctious affair.

One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.

In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

Had you asked an expert on the Middle East what changes would be likely to tke place in 2011, almost none would have predicted the Arab Spring and none would have chosen Tunisia as the flashpoint.