Government Quote by Hugo Chavez

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you…

— Ishmael

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

— Bashar al-Assad

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

— Thaksin Shinawatra

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

— Augusto Pinochet

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I…

— Benazir Bhutto

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

— Josh Homme

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort…

— Mark Danner

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

— Alan Coren

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

— Arthur Frommer

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

— Irving Babbitt

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

— Isaac Herzog