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President Putin must not win this war because that will not only be a tragedy for Ukrainians, but it will also make the world more dangerous, it will send a message to authoritarian leaders all over the world, also in China, that when they use military force, they get what they want. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
He led by example, he wasn’t an authoritarian type of leader, he led by example. We knew that in combat he was going to be right there with us – probably in front of us, and we knew that we could depend on him. We virtually would have followed him anywhere. – Ron Deis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While Homeland Security and FEMA officials continue to work with Homeland Security and FEMA officials regional partners to manage the new migration challenge caused by failing authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, Homeland Security and FEMA officials are also leading a comprehensive effort to support cities that are welcoming the people fleeing communism who Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott are using as political pawns, for instance, FEMA has personnel dedicated to supporting each city, expediting requests for reimbursement as they come in, mobilizing local service provider and non-profit support, and working with other federal agencies to identify additional resources. Homeland Security and FEMA officials will continue to do everything Homeland Security and FEMA officials can to support cities as Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis intentionally create chaos and confusion with Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott cruel political stunts. – White House	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Bolsonaro and Donald Trump share the same authoritarian populist playbook, both indicated they would refuse to accept an electoral result negative to them, both talk about fraud in the ballots. They both also keep a permanent incitement of their radicalized base. – Guilherme Casarões	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Very often, when there are challenges, it's not necessarily bad for the supreme leader at all, in fact, authoritarian leaders like Xi thrive on challenges -- and often use such crises to enhance their power. – Dali Yang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You're going to incentivize more of this, not just by Russia -- North Korea is North Korea. These rouge states, these authoritarian states... know that all they have to do is nab one American -- whether it's a business person, a tourist, a professional, like Brittney Griner -- and then they can bargain for whatever it is that they want. – Steve Hall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's now undeniable evidence... that the mercenary spyware industry is facilitating the spread of authoritarian practices and contributing to massive human rights abuses. – Citizen Lab	Found on CNN 1 year ago
YouTube in particular is kind of the last man standing, if you will, google finds itself the last company standing in this broader battle between an authoritarian government and a Western technology company that provides one of the last remaining spaces for free expression in Russia. – Alina Polyakova	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If we look, historically, at authoritarian regimes that perform poorly in a military setting, the don't tend to change their behavior in a positive direction afterwards. So the question might be that if the Ukrainians say,' OK, we will be neutral, just get out,' the Russians might say' No, you have to give us Donetsk and Luhansk. That might be bearable for Ukraine, perhaps, in order to stop the war, but what if, for instance, 10 years down the line, Ukraine has advanced on a significant military modernization ? Or the next Russian president wants to prove his worth, and they conduct another war ? There are a lot of scenarios to think through in terms of what ending this war could lead to. – Sam Cranny-Evans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You cannot be a Stalin without an oppression regime large enough to act, he’s still very strong, but this is the first time I think there will be a challenge there to act on his increasingly authoritarian agenda. – Nataliya Bugayova	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's about Chinese authoritarianism trying to expand its own influence... Far beyond its borders, even into the Western hemisphere, they want to exercise their authoritarian rule and impose the authoritarian international order. – Joseph Wu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And I think it should serve as a reminder that authoritarian countries with leaders who have no checks and balances like Russia and China and leaders who think human life is cheap can launch invasions that seem impossible for us to imagine, if the Biden Administration is wedded to this approach that they are calling integrated deterrence, which is just liberal code for cutting hard power, I fear deterrence will fail again in a bigger stage which is the conflict over Taiwan. – Mike Gallagher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's no question COVID steeled me to run for office because you better be pretty tough. Rhino skin to be able to deal with the criticism, what really got me going is when I realized the duplicitousness of the process that an authoritarian overreaching government, a top-down approach, which was destined to fail, could be lied about, that you actually could see government conspiring with media and industry to tell stories that just really don't match the reality of what we're facing. – Mehmet Oz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our region is in a period of rising strategic uncertainty, the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for our stability, and hence our prosperity are under pressure, in particular from authoritarian regimes. – Marise Payne	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Florida has become the escape hatch for those chafing under authoritarian, arbitrary and seemingly never-ending mandates and restrictions. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There is a threat of contagion, of diffusion, of these authoritarian trends, it's a profound concern. – David Altman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've been watching what Facebook does... and after( whistleblower Edward) Snowden... it's hard for them to say you can trust us because we're reliable, if we do it for liberal reasons and they do it for authoritarian reasons, it's not really a case to make here. – Jonathan Fulton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The inevitable election of Raisi to Interpol presidency is a serious attack on the values it stands for, his complicity in systematic torture and abuse is legitimised through Interpol and gives the green light to other authoritarian states that they can act without impunity. – Matthew Hedges	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time. – Thomas Widmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Like many Americans, I am pro-vaccine and anti-mandate, many small businesses and workers do not have the money or legal resources to fight Biden's unconstitutional actions and authoritarian decrees, but when his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties. – Ronna McDaniel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They're pretty draconian, quite authoritarian measures, which would be unthinkable outside a pandemic. – George Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Principals comparing their responsibility as educators in the United States in 2021 to tearing down the Berlin Wall is a red flag, it shows that they subscribe to an ideology that is ahistorical and far afield from their obligations as educators of other peoples’ children. While they cheer the collapse of an authoritarian regime in 1989, their version of ‘good trouble’ seems pretty authoritarian. – Erika Sanzi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We understand that other nation-states are competitors to the United States, and a number of them do have authoritarian regimes, but the ways in which we talk about the people and the ways in which blame is assigned somehow looks different for communities of color than it does for, say, the Russian government or the German government. – Manjusha Kulkarni	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

President Putin must not win this war because that will not only be a tragedy for Ukrainians, but it will also make the world more dangerous, it will send a message to authoritarian leaders all over the world, also in China, that when they use military force, they get what they want.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

He led by example, he wasn’t an authoritarian type of leader, he led by example. We knew that in combat he was going to be right there with us – probably in front of us, and we knew that we could depend on him. We virtually would have followed him anywhere.

– Ron Deis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While Homeland Security and FEMA officials continue to work with Homeland Security and FEMA officials regional partners to manage the new migration challenge caused by failing authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, Homeland Security and FEMA officials are also leading a comprehensive effort to support cities that are welcoming the people fleeing communism who Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott are using as political pawns, for instance, FEMA has personnel dedicated to supporting each city, expediting requests for reimbursement as they come in, mobilizing local service provider and non-profit support, and working with other federal agencies to identify additional resources. Homeland Security and FEMA officials will continue to do everything Homeland Security and FEMA officials can to support cities as Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis intentionally create chaos and confusion with Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott cruel political stunts.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bolsonaro and Donald Trump share the same authoritarian populist playbook, both indicated they would refuse to accept an electoral result negative to them, both talk about fraud in the ballots. They both also keep a permanent incitement of their radicalized base.

– Guilherme Casarões

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Very often, when there are challenges, it's not necessarily bad for the supreme leader at all, in fact, authoritarian leaders like Xi thrive on challenges -- and often use such crises to enhance their power.

– Dali Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You're going to incentivize more of this, not just by Russia -- North Korea is North Korea. These rouge states, these authoritarian states... know that all they have to do is nab one American -- whether it's a business person, a tourist, a professional, like Brittney Griner -- and then they can bargain for whatever it is that they want.

– Steve Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's now undeniable evidence... that the mercenary spyware industry is facilitating the spread of authoritarian practices and contributing to massive human rights abuses.

– Citizen Lab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

YouTube in particular is kind of the last man standing, if you will, google finds itself the last company standing in this broader battle between an authoritarian government and a Western technology company that provides one of the last remaining spaces for free expression in Russia.

– Alina Polyakova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we look, historically, at authoritarian regimes that perform poorly in a military setting, the don't tend to change their behavior in a positive direction afterwards. So the question might be that if the Ukrainians say,' OK, we will be neutral, just get out,' the Russians might say' No, you have to give us Donetsk and Luhansk. That might be bearable for Ukraine, perhaps, in order to stop the war, but what if, for instance, 10 years down the line, Ukraine has advanced on a significant military modernization ? Or the next Russian president wants to prove his worth, and they conduct another war ? There are a lot of scenarios to think through in terms of what ending this war could lead to.

– Sam Cranny-Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You cannot be a Stalin without an oppression regime large enough to act, he’s still very strong, but this is the first time I think there will be a challenge there to act on his increasingly authoritarian agenda.

– Nataliya Bugayova

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's about Chinese authoritarianism trying to expand its own influence... Far beyond its borders, even into the Western hemisphere, they want to exercise their authoritarian rule and impose the authoritarian international order.

– Joseph Wu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And I think it should serve as a reminder that authoritarian countries with leaders who have no checks and balances like Russia and China and leaders who think human life is cheap can launch invasions that seem impossible for us to imagine, if the Biden Administration is wedded to this approach that they are calling integrated deterrence, which is just liberal code for cutting hard power, I fear deterrence will fail again in a bigger stage which is the conflict over Taiwan.

– Mike Gallagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's no question COVID steeled me to run for office because you better be pretty tough. Rhino skin to be able to deal with the criticism, what really got me going is when I realized the duplicitousness of the process that an authoritarian overreaching government, a top-down approach, which was destined to fail, could be lied about, that you actually could see government conspiring with media and industry to tell stories that just really don't match the reality of what we're facing.

– Mehmet Oz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our region is in a period of rising strategic uncertainty, the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for our stability, and hence our prosperity are under pressure, in particular from authoritarian regimes.

– Marise Payne

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Florida has become the escape hatch for those chafing under authoritarian, arbitrary and seemingly never-ending mandates and restrictions.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a threat of contagion, of diffusion, of these authoritarian trends, it's a profound concern.

– David Altman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've been watching what Facebook does... and after( whistleblower Edward) Snowden... it's hard for them to say you can trust us because we're reliable, if we do it for liberal reasons and they do it for authoritarian reasons, it's not really a case to make here.

– Jonathan Fulton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The inevitable election of Raisi to Interpol presidency is a serious attack on the values it stands for, his complicity in systematic torture and abuse is legitimised through Interpol and gives the green light to other authoritarian states that they can act without impunity.

– Matthew Hedges

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time.

– Thomas Widmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like many Americans, I am pro-vaccine and anti-mandate, many small businesses and workers do not have the money or legal resources to fight Biden's unconstitutional actions and authoritarian decrees, but when his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties.

– Ronna McDaniel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're pretty draconian, quite authoritarian measures, which would be unthinkable outside a pandemic.

– George Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Principals comparing their responsibility as educators in the United States in 2021 to tearing down the Berlin Wall is a red flag, it shows that they subscribe to an ideology that is ahistorical and far afield from their obligations as educators of other peoples’ children. While they cheer the collapse of an authoritarian regime in 1989, their version of ‘good trouble’ seems pretty authoritarian.

– Erika Sanzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We understand that other nation-states are competitors to the United States, and a number of them do have authoritarian regimes, but the ways in which we talk about the people and the ways in which blame is assigned somehow looks different for communities of color than it does for, say, the Russian government or the German government.

– Manjusha Kulkarni

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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