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.

- Edwidge Danticat

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

- Elliott Abrams

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

- Fay Vincent

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

- Ferdinand Marcos

In Honduras, in particular, Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state was instrumental in legitimizing the coup's subsequent death-squad regime.

- Greg Grandin

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.

- Hugo Chavez

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

- Jejomar Binay

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

- Nick Nolte

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

- Thaksin Shinawatra