Garry Kasparov Quotes

Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn't set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state and a totalitarian society.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

The man is a tyrant and he killed lots of people .

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

In Mafia states government officials enrich themselves and their families and friends while exploiting the money, muscle, political influence, and global connections of criminal syndicates to cement and expand their own power…Top positions in some of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises are no longer filled only by professional criminals; they now include senior government officials, legislators, spy chiefs, heads of police departments, military officers, and, in some extreme cases, even heads of state and their families.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

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

President Maliki: The appetite has grown with the eating. He has become a real dictator.

I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.

Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish crush on Putin's gangster swagger and his contempt for democracy, Trump wants to rule with his family, taking decisions purely because he's right about everything like a tsar.