Autocratic Leadership Quotes

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

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

When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You'd think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn't work that way. But obviously he hasn't.

Americans hate traffic jams and also dislike power-hungry political figures.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

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

When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

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 can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

I think if I had met him [Lenin] without knowing who he was, I should not have guessed that he was a great man; he struck me as too opinionated and narrowly orthodox.

The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organization. It has been so consistently developed and in the end carried to extremes, by the Bolsheviks to the fundamental principle of centralism that it has led to over centralism.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

Trump has humbled our country under the shadow of China's autocrat Xi Jinping.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.