Dictator Quotations

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of science fiction where the Lex Luthors of the world take over. People with exceptional ability, they don't become politicians; they don't become multi-millionaires; some of them just become professors like me, making a measly income.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

We're helping a nation that was being murdered by a madman. He was a dictator that needed to be removed.

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

(Lukashenko) has provided proof that he is a dictator and must be treated as such. In addition, one must think about the possibility of other sanctions.

if this dictator starts to think of evangelicals as people who are gunning for him, that could be difficult for missionaries there.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

He has two choices. One, come to an understanding with political parties accepting the role of a constitutional monarch. Two, go totally repressive as a dictator and risk the monarchy's future in the long run.

I also think he won't be a dictator but that he'll be an open coach. He wants his assistants to do their jobs. He also has good insight as to what is the purpose of high school athletics and what his kids will have learned when the season is over.

I talked with him for about 25 minutes through an interpreter. First of all, I was scared to death. I grew up during the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis, and here's the dictator who almost led us to World War III.

(Late Philippine dictator Ferdinand) Marcos is a good example, Mr. (Manuel) Noreiga of Panama. But this is all way after the fact. They don't get into the game soon enough to really make a difference.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

It is every artist's fantasy to run things. I know personally, I'd be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.

We protested today to show Sudanese dictator General Omar Al-Bashir that we hold him personally accountable for this worsening, three-year genocide and that we will keep the pressure on him, and on the international community until it ends.

We have torn off his mask in front of the world to show him as he really is -- a small-time Balkan dictator unable to bear the slightest defeat.

We do think it's a rather dubious distinction to be the first democratically elected head of state to go meet with the dictator of Iraq

Today the former dictator sits in captivity; he can no longer harbor and support terrorists, and his long efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction are finally at an end.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there...when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

How come Kony gets a viral video made about him and i don't

We would not recommend that people allow themselves to be used by a tyrant and a dictator who has a history of doing horrible things to even his own people as well as his neighbors, ... So this is not the time for people to call themselves human shields.

We have seen the results of appeasement. ... It is much easier to tolerate a dictator when he is dictating over somebody else's life and not your own,

Please say this gas bill is just an estimate

We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terrorists and a record of reckless aggression to dominate the Middle East and to threaten the United States of America.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

Bremer is the dictator of Iraq. He had the money. He has the signature. Nothing happens without his agreement in this country.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

a dictator with something of the earthy American sense of humor of a Mark Twain, a George Ade, a Will Rogers, an Artemus Ward.

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history. Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history, ... Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times. That's why our country must be safe from the claws of the dictator Berisha.

You've rescued a nation, you've liberated a people, you've deposed a cruel dictator and you've ended his threat to free nations. You've braved death squads and dust storms racing across hundreds of miles to reach Baghdad in less than a month.

There will be peace when the dictator is out of that palace,

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

Not only were we top of the Scottish Premier League, our season tickets had doubled and we were planning ground expansion, ... Vladimir Romanov is behaving like a dictator and if he continues to do that there will be a revolution against him.

It's not democracy when a dictator is walking around with a sword in his hand. This is inadmissible.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.