Dictator Quotes - Page 10

• I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Leader, Would Be

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• Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

  Naomi Wolf

  People, Doe, Citizens

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Thug, Tyrants

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• I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Children, Law

  "Angelina Jolie Interview: Mama!". Interview with Sara Davidson, www.rd.com.

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• The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

  Jalal Talabani

  Iraq, Darkness, Regimes

  "War Ended Era of Torture, Tyranny: Iraqi President". www.abc.net.au. March 20, 2008.

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .

  Samuel R. Delany

  Country, Fighting, People

  Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books

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• Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Winning, Boss, Kitchen

  Source: collider.com

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• A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

  Vladimir Voinovich

  Real, Pure

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Revolution, Virtue, States

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

  Tony Blair

  War, Chance, Sometimes

  "Blair promises to be bolder" by Mark Davies, news.bbc.co.uk. October 1, 2002.

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

  Augusto Pinochet

  Stills, Governing

  Speech, December 31, 1995.

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• Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Fun, Insanity, Horror

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• I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

  Paul Stanley

  Mean, Goal, Car

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• I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Country, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Dictators are interesting, no?

  Martin Parr

  Interesting

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• Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Mind, Vectors

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• In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or a group, would be attacking another group and would be enslaving all the women of that group.

  Yanar Mohammed

  War, Iraq, Groups

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

  Bernard Lewis

  Giving, Support, Islam

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• I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.

  Barbara Walters

  Years, Democracy, Together

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• I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Korean

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Kim, Lessons, Korean

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• Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Rumor, Remember

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• The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Mystery

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• He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Running, Phones

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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