Dictators Quotes

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

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

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 have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

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

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.