"My library is filled with UN condemnations."

“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”

“The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.”

“I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.”

“I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator.”

“I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”

“I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”