I just extracted the loading screen quotes from the game for a thread in the German forum and thought it wouldn't hurt to post the English ones here as well (I can vaguely remember someone requesting them earlier):

Quote:Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. - George F. Will

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. - Che Guevara

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. - Che Guevara

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. - Che Guevara

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. - Che Guevara

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ... - Che Guevara

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace. - Che Guevara

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one. - Che Guevara

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. - Che Guevara

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have. - Augusto Pinochet

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. - Augusto Pinochet
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. - Augusto Pinochet

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear! - Augusto Pinochet

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there. - Augusto Pinochet

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator. - Augusto Pinochet

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. - Fidel Castro
Ideas do not need weapons. - Fidel Castro

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell. - Fidel Castro

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. - Fidel Castro

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. - Nelson Mandela

Justice is incidental to law and order. - J. Edgar Hoover

We thank God that our enemies are idiots. - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. - Robert Mugabe

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how. - Joseph Stalin

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? - Joseph Stalin

Great causes and little men go ill together. - Jawaharlal Nehru

I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air. - Ronald Reagan

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. - Richard Nixon

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. - Mao Zedong

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. - William Gaddis

I'm personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets... But it's what the people want. - Saparmurat Niyazov

Let the life of every Turkmen be as beautiful as our melons. - Saparmurat Niyazov

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election - Imelda Marcos

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees. - Todor Zhivkov

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. - Todor Zhivkov

Well, only half or less of those quotes are from dictators, but they set the tone.

Which reminds me that I still haven't tried my luck as dictator in the game yet. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

I was curious about a list like this, i love the quotes. Thanks.

(25-05-2010 08:07 PM)Turjan Wrote:  Well, only half or less of those quotes are from dictators, but they set the tone.

Which reminds me that I still haven't tried my luck as dictator in the game yet. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

It is great! I have created all sorts of dictatorships when playing Tropico 3, the most interesting was the 'Intellectual dictatorship' that I once created; I kept the intellectuals happy with plenty of educational buildings and jobs, as well as enacting edicts that pleased the intellectuals. I had elections, but in reality my main opponents had a habit of 'disappearing'.

For your first dictatorship, you should try setting up a 'Communist-Military' dictatorship, as those are often the easiest to maintain, as the Communist and Militarist factions make up a large chunk of your population. It costs a lot in terms of housing, healthcare, and maintaining the military, but your grip on power should remain pretty secure.

(26-05-2010 08:59 PM)BlackXcalibur Wrote:  It is great! I have created all sorts of dictatorships when playing Tropico 3, the most interesting was the 'Intellectual dictatorship' that I once created; I kept the intellectuals happy with plenty of educational buildings and jobs, as well as enacting edicts that pleased the intellectuals. I had elections, but in reality my main opponents had a habit of 'disappearing'.

For your first dictatorship, you should try setting up a 'Communist-Military' dictatorship, as those are often the easiest to maintain, as the Communist and Militarist factions make up a large chunk of your population. It costs a lot in terms of housing, healthcare, and maintaining the military, but your grip on power should remain pretty secure.

I really have to try that. It will be interesting to see what the difference between not having elections, having rigged elections, or just eliminating opponents will be. I hope these are viable game paths.

I just saw this one for the first time today, I think it's the best one : "Politicians are like diapers. They both need to be changed regularly and for the same reason."

Forgot who it was attributed to in game and a quick glance at google has all sorts of people.

I am completing the list with the new quotes from Absolute Power:

Quote:I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation... - Frank Bainimarama

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo Rosten

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. - Herbert Hoover

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody. - J. Edgar Hoover

My heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests. - Viktor Yushchenko

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. - Viktor Yushchenko

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. - Vladimir Putin

There is no such thing as a former KGB man. - Vladimir Putin

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. - Vladimir Putin

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true. - Paul Watson

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools? - Haile Selassie I

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone. - Silvio Berlusconi

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar. - Silvio Berlusconi

Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are. - Silvio Berlusconi

Communism is like one big phone company. - Lenny Bruce

It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. - Arthur Mutambara

I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. - Robert Mugabe

We have set this goal: to win the election. - Viktor Yanukovych

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president. - Viktor Yanukovych

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. - Fidel Castro

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. - George W. Bush

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. - Harry S. Truman

Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him'. - Hugo Chavez

The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. - Henry Kissinger

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. - Henry Kissinger

Even a paranoid can have enemies. - Henry Kissinger

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. - Nelson Mandela

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. - Mao Zedong

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. - Mao Zedong

To read too many books is harmful. - Mao Zedong

The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police. - Todor Zhivkov

This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors! - Todor Zhivkov

Stalin: stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second. - Josip Broz Tito

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow. - Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. - Charlie Chaplin

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. - Leonid Brezhnev

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism. - Karl Marx

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. - Idi Amin

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. - Idi Amin

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde

A leader leads by example not by force. - Sun Tzu

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither. - Saddam Hussein

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live. - Kim Il Sung

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor? - Ferdinand Marcos

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader. - Pol Pot

The only good bourgeois is a dead bourgeois. - Pol Pot

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. - Erich Honecker

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down. - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We are not expelling the journalists but they are free to leave whenever they want. - Charles Taylor

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire

Thanks to Lyubo for compiling the list!

Sweet! Instead of keeping us up-to-date on the current status of the 360 save fix, I get to read Dictator quotes from PC's expansion pack: Absolute Power, we LOVE you Timo, thank you again for this important information!

EDIT: Also I would like to thank Lyubo for compiling this great list as well!

Quotes I would've liked to seen in Tropico (not necessarily leader/dictator quotes):

"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on." -Robert Strauss

"If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business." -Jay Leno

"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night." -Otto von Bismark

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell in 1984

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." -Ben Franklin

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. " -Abraham Lincoln

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" -Abraham Lincoln

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues." -Teddy Roosevelt

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." -Teddy Roosevelt

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -John F Kennedy

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." -Bill Gates