Dictators Quotes

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

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.

You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

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

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

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