Autocratic Ruler Quotes

… preposterous little czar

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

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.

The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

He's my idol. Putin is a beauty.

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.

Supreme Leader

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

Maummar Qaddafi. He is clinically stupid.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

[Ronald Reagan resembles:] a Turkish pasha, passively letting his subjects serve him.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.