I’ve never understood in my life why all these dictators…

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out.…

— Jane Fonda

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

— Dennis Hastert

“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists…

— Rutger Bregman

The people will demand answers from all the dictators and the people who have not allowed this country to function.

— Nawaz Sharif

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators…

— Brendan Myers

“I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people and mounds…

— Christopher Hitchens

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

— Aldous Huxley

Dictators don't come from elections.

— Alexander Lukashenko

America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never.

— Ruben Gallego

Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.

— Bob Menendez

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the…

— Jon Stewart

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

— Sharan Burrow

You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps,…

— Steve Hilton

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were…

— Carl Safina