There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.
Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.
Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.
You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.
Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!