Dictator Quotes

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

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

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

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

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.