Coup Quotations

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people.

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

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.

The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

Persuading George Davies to stay is quite a coup for Stuart Rose.

Neither he nor the United States government supports a coup -- the overthrow of a democratically elected government. What he was speaking to was what appears to be an encouraging prospect, that what has happened appears to have brought stability and resulted in an easing of tensions between Pakistan and India.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

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?

I executed a coup ... and it would be loath of me to leave the process half-done in terms of the processes of law.

What we expect to get out of this is the declaration that the coup was wrong and that the rights of the petitioners were violated. No matter what happens on Tuesday, the election is going to be an empty exercise, unless the international community respects the Haitian voters' decision.

If the Disney name resonates with the Chinese consumer, it would be a huge coup for the company,

Longer-term, the Philippines could be entering a period of heightened coup attempts, rumor -- similar to the period under former president Corazon Aquino.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

I'm so delighted that Rick has agreed to remain our men's basketball coach for an additional three years. When he first became our coach, I felt that if he could come here and reconstruct our program in six years, it would be a major coup for this institution. Our entire university and community will benefit immensely from his pushing that initial commitment to nine years.

It could be a major coup for Disney to re-enliven their animation franchises.

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.

Under the cover of the elections, a violent coup is being prepared in the country.

There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,

There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,

The reconciliation that has been undertaken today will be worthless if investigations into the coup do not reveal the truth behind the staging.

Tom pulled off the coup of the century. He probably planned it like a precision military operation.

It would only be a coup if the person who is a leader of a party leaves and becomes the leader elsewhere. I mean, what would you settle for if you are a leader of a party and you defect? No. 12 in the batting order? No. 15?

We see this as a coup attempt to change the regime and they have to seriously reconsider their decisions.

It would be an absolute coup for ABC to steal Letterman, ... Reliable Sources.

We had a radical clash over policy programs, a pact now would be incomprehensible for the citizens. There can be no coup de theatre, no rabbit pulled out of a hat.

This obviously is a big coup for Kansas City.

This is a major, major coup for the city of Jackson,

This is a real coup for us and will really benefit the students in their study of Shakespeare and general appreciation of his work.

This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

If you fail to secure nuclear weapons in a country that may be torn by a civil war, coup attempt or insurgency, you fail massively.

I'm going to stand up among a bunch of elected governors and say, 'Are we going to allow the military without a shot being fired to effectively do an end-run coup on civilian government? Are we going to allow that?' ... We're going to have a little civics lesson for some leaders who are apparently out of touch in the military.

That is the major coup of the film.

Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.

If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

an indication that they're confident that the coup rumors are nothing more than that.

This is a huge coup for E! and demonstrates how committed we are about being the dominant entertainment authority. Not only will we benefit immensely from Ryan's extraordinary ability as a broadcaster, his crystal clear vision of our brand will make him an extremely valuable supplier of original programming. His talent, popularity and easygoing on-screen charm have earned him millions of fans who will follow him to E! He is the very best at what he does.

This is a huge coup for E! He is the very best at what he does.

This is a huge coup for the Games to be invited to be part of the pre-game entertainment,

The idea of coup plotters sharing their plan to oust an incumbent president with a reporter is ludicrous. Nevertheless, such unfounded reports give the Philippines a negative image before the international community,

This is a great coup for our region.

This is a great coup for Sports Network who not only promote Britain's most prominent world champions but also the best in outstanding young talent,

As we did in the 1988 coup against us, we say good luck to the country.

Edward's qualities as a musician and his natural rapport with both singers and creative teams make his appointment a major coup for ENO.

What the alleged coup failed to do, in terms of weakening the peso, the president managed to. Clearly, this is detrimental to foreign sentiment.

This was more like a terrorist act to alarm the population than an act of war, ... The people who did this coup are amateurs, they're children.

The removal of the sodomy laws. That really was the biggest achievement. Because while many states had already done that, there were many that had not. And once the Federal Government said NO to such laws, that was the coup de grace - that was the principle thing so far as I'm concerned.

I can't think of anything else where somebody had a theory and a practice and an institute in their name and that there was a coup going on internally over it. This sounds nasty.