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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.

- Alex Winter

There may be another coup, but I don`t know what we can do,

- Lyndon Johnson

The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

- Bob Woodward

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.

- Mark Edwards

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- Michael Long

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

- Orhan Pamuk

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

- Alesia Watson

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can`t find in an army without morale.

- Alfred Edward Housman

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there`s a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

- Allen Harris

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

- Allen Harris

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

- Amien Rais

I think either one of them would be a great coup for the city of Portland.

- Ato Boldon