"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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"There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us."
"I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction."
"I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa."
"It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship."
"The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture."
"The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned."