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Quotes About Dictator

Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Fox News is unique in American media history as serving more like the in-house propaganda arm of a strong-man dictator than operating by the accepted norms of professional journalism.
~ Stuart Stevens
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~ Joseph Stalin
The last day of April, Hitler killed himself—which was a sure sign the war wasn't going his way.
~ Joyce Moyer Hostetter
En un extremo están esas narraciones alucinadas sobre sirenas que no eran sirenas, sino manatíes, y grifos que no eran grifos, sino cóndores; en el otro está el esperpento valleinclanesco. En un extremo está el pariente remoto de la <>, esa osadía típicamente latinoamericana; en el otro, el antepasado inmediato de aquel fatigado cliché del dictador, que nuestra realidad política sigue dando por válido.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Sadam representa todo lo que abomina cualquier demócrata: es un dictador sanguinario, que tiene las manos manchadas con la sangre de los iraquíes que se han atrevido a oponérsele y con la de los kurdos a los que ha asesinado masivamente.
~ Julia Navarro
Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
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.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
~ blair tony ii
I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.
~ Jonathan Powell
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
~ Brent Scowcroft
Schulze muttered at one point, "Adolf ist kaputt.
~ Stephan Talty
The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is found in all dictators throughout history.
~ Michael Crichton
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~ Michael Cunningham
What we do know of Stalin's purges is that many victims were Communist party officials, managers, military officers, and other strategically situated individuals whom the dictator saw fit to incarcerate or liquidate. In addition, whole catagories of people whom Stalin considered of unreliable loyalty—Cossacks, Crimean Tarters, and ethnic Germans—were selected for internal deportation
~ Michael Parenti
not take an oath to a king, or a queen," Milley told the crowd, "to a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an
~ Bob Woodward
But it is a sad state of affairs for our country that we've been taken over by a dictator who used force against another branch of government. And he's still sitting there. He should have been arrested. He should have been arrested on the spot. He had a coup d'état against us so he can stay in office. There should be some way to remove him. But anyway, it's no use wasting your time on this. I appreciate that. Thank you, General. Thank you.
~ Bob Woodward
Ask any of your elders and they will tell you: Trujillo might have been a dictator, but, he was a Dominican dictator, which is another way of saying he was the number-one bellaco in the country.
~ Junot Diaz
He was our Sauron, our Arawn, our Darkseid, our Once and Future Dictator, a personaje so outlandish, so perverse, so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made his ass up.
~ Junot Diaz
Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
~ Lakhdar Brahimi
No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion, or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's nothing like self-pity for thoroughly dissipating a man. And when a nation indulges in that luxury it finds itself with a dictator.
~ Helen MacInnes
Yes, Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator and supporter of terrorism during his 40-year reign in Libya, but he had become an ally of the United States in the fight against radical jihadism after 9/11.
~ Pete Hoekstra
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
~ George H. W. Bush