Dictator
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.
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Dictator Quotations
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Colin Powell
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
Joni Mitchell
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Isabella Rossellini
I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Corazon Aquino
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien
I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.
Condoleezza Rice
Dictator Translations
dictator in Dutch is dictator
dictator in French is dictateur
dictator in German is Diktator
dictator in Latin is dictator
dictator in Portuguese is ditador
dictator in Spanish is dictador
dictator in Swedish is diktator
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