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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Help find similar quotes? related: Voters upset choosing between the two US oligarch partys "get over yourselves" said Hillary.

I thought this would make a good post if I could find 3 or 4 quotes from modern autocrat leaders, and also historic autocratic leaders. Iconic like Bush's "mission accomplished" and other poigniant sound-bite sentences that boils down the very essence on out-of-touch dictator lackeys just spewing utterly inane nothings at a time of historic social change.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

"I personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month, and last Sunday I said to the kids, 'You're older now. You don't watch Disney anymore. Let's cut that Disney+ subscription,"'

"I believe that I need to take exactly the same approach with the federal government's finances, because that's the money of Canadians."

Canada's finance minister with a Ukrainian Nazi grandfather Chrystia Freeland; on inflation.