Benigno Aquino III Quotes

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

Civic murder … This free republic has killed five men for their opinions.

A review of our files on the Letelier assassination has provided what we regard as convincing evidence that President Pinochet personally ordered his intelligence chief to carry out the murder.

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

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

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

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

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

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.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet

Totalitarianism liquidates its internal enemies or smashes opposition as soon as it arises; it uses methods that are simple and infallible because they are undemocratic. But democracy can defend itself from within only very feebly; its internal enemy has an easy time of it because he exploits the right to disagree that is inherent in democracy.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

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

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

Zaire's one-party system is the most elaborate form of democracy

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition

Maintaining legitimacy in an authoritarian state is very difficult.

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.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.