Dissidents Quotes

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents` protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn`t discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

The firm (Yahoo!) says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever knowing what it will be used for. But this argument no longer holds water. Yahoo! certainly knew it was helping to arrest political dissidents and journalists, not just ordinary criminals.

Given the somewhat unrespectful decisions by the Nicaraguan authorities relating to the granting of visas to (Cuban) rafters and other dissidents from Cuba, a climate has emerged which does not favor at all going ahead with these encounters.