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.
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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.
I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.
Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
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.
There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream.
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.