Augusto Pinochet Quotes

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

We [Arabs] export not only oil but techniques and tools of torture. Our states, run by ministries of the interior and the security services, are regimes bereft of legitimacy and based on violations of dignity and human rights.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure … hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association with me.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read him the rights. They didn't talk. They were terrorists. It was over.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.