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"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
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"We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
"It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video."
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane."
"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
"Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers."
"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
"There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated."
"George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go."
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