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As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
