Alexander Haig Quotes

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

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

Stalin is too brutal. His powers should be taken away from him.

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

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.

Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

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.

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

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

Fidel Castro has killed more people than we even know …. Fidel Castro uses medicine and food to suppress his people.

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

Maintaining legitimacy in an authoritarian state is very difficult.

The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.