“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“The main message is that in a democracy, [assassination] is not the means to change policy, ... Unfortunately, the assassin was right: for a while, there was a freeze in process.”
Yitzhak Rabin
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“The Israeli government continues its policy of assassination, ... This policy will destroy any hope for peace. Resistance will continue.”
Abdel Rahman
“remarkable the government’s restraint since the assassination of this top minister.”
Jerry Weller
“The government strongly condemns this assassination and believes that the only people who benefit from this are those who want to block the course of justice and move the trial out of Iraq .”
Leith Kubba
