Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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

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

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

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

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

Joe McCarthy was the local town drunk in a business suit.

Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government.

They were both obnoxious, drunk with their power …. they were the hatchet men of the Nixon administration, the killers, the psychopaths in residence

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. It is growing daily.

By all means, make him [Democrat General Lewis Cass] President, gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously – if there is any left after he has helped himself.

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

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

Nigeria first entered...'the dismal tunnel' on January 15, 1966, when the military overthrew all the institutions of a democratically elected government... If there is light at the end of this tunnel, it is imperceptible to anyone not paid to see it.

Democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people

The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.