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• Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Rumor, Remember

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• Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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• President Obama is in China. Also in China is evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. They're both in China at the same time. It's like running into your ex-girlfriend on vacation.

  David Letterman

  Running, Girlfriend, Vacation

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Men, Play

  Ernest Hemingway, Séan A. Hemingway (2003). “Hemingway on war”, Scribner Book Company

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• Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

  Martin O'Malley

  Home, Evil, Stronger

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.

  Martin O'Malley

  Fall, Thinking, Understanding

  "Hillary Clinton at Democratic debate: ISIS 'cannot be contained'" by MJ Lee, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Army, Fighting

  "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

  Christopher Hitchens

  Would Be, Tactics, Revolutionary

  "Murder was their only motive" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Home, Tasks, Debt

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• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

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• No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "U.S. policy on Iraq draws fire in Ohio". www.cnn.com. February 18, 1998.

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either.

  Gordon Tullock

  Mean, Democracy, Different

  Gordon Tullock (1987). “Autocracy”, p.20, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, World, Earth

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sorry, Want, Conquer

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Latin, Reviews

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• Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Sometimes, Subconscious

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Years, America

  "Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First". www.washingtontimes.com. May 15, 2006.

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• As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, America, Long

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

  Richard Griffiths

  Disrespect, Crime, Ifs

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Strong, Party

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

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• When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Tyrants, Risk

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