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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.

Wendell Willkie

Government

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.

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

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

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

Dennis Prager

Dictators

Harm

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

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

Jan Masaryk

Dictators

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

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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators

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.

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.

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.