The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Absolutism tempered by assassination

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

The government strongly condemns this assassination and believes that the only people who benefit from this are those who want to block the course of justice and move the trial out of Iraq .

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.