“Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.”

Hearthstone series, Randuin 2 Electric Boogaloo (January 13, 2015)

1911 - 1940, Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)

Religion

Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, 1985, p. 275

Commonly rephrased as: "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media."
Quotes 1960s–1980s, 1980s

"Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933

Pourquoi voulez-vous qu'à 67 ans je commence une carrière de dictateur ?
Press conference, May 19 1958 (De Gaulle was changing the constitution to make government more efficient, after decades of impotent parliamentary regime, and he mocked journalists who claimed he was establishing a dictatorship).
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2

Speech (December 31, 1995), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1990s