Unilateral Rule Quotes

When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.

In an absolute government there can be no... equiponderant parties. The despot is the government.

Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be a savior, so he says, in his famous phrase, "Only I can fix it!" That's a strange and weird statement for anybody to make, but it's central to Trump's sense of self and self-presentation. And I think that has a lot to do with his identification with dictators. No matter how many they kill and no matter what else they do, they have this capacity to rule by decree without any interference by legislators or courts.

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Neither our present-day natives nor their ancestors ever surrendered their sovereignty…. Frankly, I don't recall ever surrendering my sovereignty either. I was never asked whether I accepted the rule of federal, provincial or municipal governments over me. I was simply born here, like a Mohawk or an Inuit, and successive groups of people calling themselves the government have taken it upon themselves to claim that they rule me.

all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery

A 97-percent win is the kind of result you get in a one-party regime.