Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

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

I'll be quite frank. I don't think there is a military problem here. This is a domestic, political problem for us.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.

Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

The defense…that the United Nations could not interfere with any member’s domestic concerns was a sentiment with which all UN members concurred, all having something to hide.

A democratic crisis can only be settled by more democracy.

Be careful, you are about to swallow a deadly poison, which we know from sad experience. Better prepare an emetic, for surely you will soon be in convulsions from sever internal political disturbances.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

Suddenly in a matter of months there were more than 100 thousand Boxers in the capital, from ordinary people to soldiers to princes and grandees … The capital would be plunged into unthinkable peril if I tried to use the army to crush them. I have to go along with them and salvage the situation somehow...

During presidential scandals, the White House peddles the illusion that the president and top aides are undistracted, that the nation's business remains foremost in their minds, when in fact the political challenges threaten to overpower all else.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

We cannot allow any uncontrolled situation and destabilization in the country.

Political void should never be allowed to happen at a time of national crisis.