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"We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.” - Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987

"I'm getting out to mind my own fucking business, from somewhere else, and so I'm leaving this shitty country, of which I'm sickened." - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Italy, 2011.

"Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!" - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense and architect of the Iraq War, Foreign Press Center, 21 June 2002.

"It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency," former US President George W Bush, 14 June 2001

"I'd even defend George Bush! But only if he pleads guilty." - Jacques Vergès, French resistance fighter, writer, political activist and lawyer famed for defending war criminals and genocidaires.

"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins." - Frank Dane, British actor of the silent era.

"I deeply appreciated your historic decision to establish the presidential sceptre," - Salvador Dali, 1976 in a sarcastic telegram delivered to Nicolae Ceaușescu upon his becoming dictator.

"I was promoting the Philippine shoe industry" - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and owner of 3000 pairs of shoes in response to alleged graft.

"Trust, but verify." - Russian proverb made famous by Ronald Reagan.

"Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended." - Saddam Hussein, 1979