The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.
We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.
You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.
I hate war. . . for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [. . . ] Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors.
Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.
