I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Our actions to overthrow secular dictators in Iraq and Libya, and attempts now to do the same in Syria, have resulted in… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.” — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests. — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.” — Andrew Crofts Copy Share Image
Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities,… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
Some authoritarians and dictators intentionally use starvation as a tactic of war. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
