Authoritarian Style Quotes

Mr. Roosevelt has studied well the Hitlerian art and bids fair to outdo the record of his teacher.

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.

The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the need to violently shake the system. His ability to conjure fear is what distinguished him from all those career pols he has vanquished. And it suits his ego.

Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn't want to listen.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.

I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

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

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

I just see how Donald Trump treats other people, and I was impressed by that.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

At meetings he asks specific questions of his subordinates, and they supply answers; there is no greater discussion. His decision-making has become almsot totally reactive. It is based, not on goals, but on threats.

You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.

She [Margaret Thatcher] cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.