Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

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.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Corporations are the new dictators.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

Beans are a real go-to for me.

Don't worry about perfection. Nature doesn't grow in straight lines.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

I only drive in movies. I know that's very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.

Never live with someone that won the Heisman.

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

My parents are pretty cool people.

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Of course its heavy, that's why they call it weight.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.