We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.
Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.
The shift to fascism was applauded by many both within Italy and without who believed that dictatorship offered a better chance of providing stability and development that the country so desperately needed.
We keep looking at democratization as an event—like the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it’s actually a process.
Revolutions do not always establish freedom.
The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.
The Russian government pushed too hard to change the system overnight.
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
It is a big challenge, but I believe that, although difficult, it is not impossible to replace President dos Santos.
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
In all our history, there is no change of government peacefully.
By a revolution in the state, the fawning sycophant of yesterday is converted into the austere critic of the present hour.
Whenever we see a state conducted by measures contrary to those made use of in its foundation, we may be assured a great revolution is at hand.
Duc de Sully
History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently shipwrecked.
Earl of Cromer
If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.
All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.
Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.
A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
