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Quotes Tagged "coup"

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.
— Hugo Chavez
Tags: april, coup, lead, doubt, government
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
— Fay Vincent
Tags: bud, commissioner, coup, surprised, good
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
— Mona Eltahawy
Tags: coup, outcome, because, revolution, envy
Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power?
— Sergei Lavrov
Tags: coup, general, power, change
In Honduras, in particular, Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state was instrumental in legitimizing the coup's subsequent death-squad regime.
— Greg Grandin
Tags: instrumental, coup, state, secretary
For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.
— John Fleming
Tags: coup, line, tax, republican
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