No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

- Lou Reed

Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and killed many of his own people, and was in violation of obligations imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

- John Chilcot

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

- Josh Homme

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

- John F. Kerry

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.

- Joanna Lumley

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

- Junot Diaz

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

- Joni Mitchell

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

- Jeremy Corbyn

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

- Isabella Rossellini

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.

- Augusto Pinochet

I'm a benevolent dictator.

- Harvey Weinstein

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

- George W. Bush

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

- Gary Johnson

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

- Dominic Cooper

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

- Cory Gardner

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

- Clare Balding

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

- Colin Powell

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

- Bob Kerrey

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

- Benito Mussolini