Tammy Baldwin Quotes

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.

Despotism is a long crime.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

The malignity and inhumanity of the Greek military authorities are undisguised.

Around him are the riffraff of thick-skinned party leaders. He plays off the half-humans with favours. Forging edict after edict as if they were horseshoes- Shoots some in the forehead, others in the chest, the eye, the groin. Everyday he has an execution -- for our Broadchested Georgian it's like picking raspberries

When a dictatorship controls the political life of a country, responsible opposition cannot develop, and dissent is driven underground and toward the extreme. And to draw attention away from their social and economic failures, dictators place blame on other countries and other races, and stir the hatred that leads to violence. This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws.

[A] representative of... a government whose Three Graces are Tyranny, Rapacity, Blood.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to remain in power.

Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

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

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.