Barack Obama Quotes

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence and blatant violation of human rights.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

To trample democracy with one’s feet and to give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can very probably tremble over the events which will come here.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws.

Witness the tragic condition of Russia. The methods of State centralization have paralyzed individual initiative and effort; the tyranny of the dictatorship has cowed the people into slavish submission and all but extinguished the fires of liberty; organized terrorism has depraved and brutalized the masses and stifled every idealistic aspiration; institutionalized murder has cheapened human life, and all sense of the dignity of man and the value of life has been eliminated; coercion at every step has made effort bitter, labor a punishment, has turned the whole of existence into a scheme of mutual deceit, and has revived the lowest and most brutal instincts of man.

Erdogon has become so paranoid, so power-hungry, he doesn't even allow institutions to flourish. It has become a one-man show.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.