Mike Huckabee Quotes
The man is a tyrant and he killed lots of people .
Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas (Republican), Referring to Syrian ruler Bassam Assad, Republican Presidential Nomination Debate, Las Vegas, NV, December 15, 2015
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He served as a liaison with the Russian military officers after WWII. As a result he developed friendships with some who told him much about Stalin.
See {585638} for the kind of statement that led people to fear him as a dictator.
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Belafonte was on stage with Hugo Chavez, the autocratic president of Venezuela and a patent demagogue who constantly attacked Bush and the American government. Other than an entertainer who knows little about politics making an over the top attack on the president this quotation is ironic because he was at the time on the stage with and supporting one of the two most autocratic dictators of the Western Hemisphere—Hugo Chavez. In that context, the accusation was as absurd as it can get.
Mitchel was convicted for his writings and deported to New Zealand from which he escaped to the United States where he worked as a journalist before returning to Ireland.
Mark Twain referring to and reflecting on his encounter with the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Aziz.
Bashir Assad responded to some peaceful protests triggered by the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East by allowing his security forces to shoot unarmed demonstrating civilians and shelling with artillery to and apartment buildings of neighborhoods where there were large numbers of demonstrators. So many thousands of civilians were liked that the protestors, who initially only wanted more freedom, also demanded Assad’s resignation and his trial for war crimes by the World Court. Baker did not think that Assad could hold power very much longer.
Michael Dale Huckabee is an American politician, Baptist minister, and political commentator who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination in both 2008 and 2016.
