A small group of self-serving individuals are determined to insure high profits for the oil and gas companies while making the entire country vulnerable to the whims of any foreign despot that comes along.

Sooner or later, our foreign policy "experts" will come to the conclusion history has shown us: supporting foreign despots is not a good investment in the long run.

Saunders goes on to explain that Hacker once wrote an article for Reform, deploring the sale of British arms to foreign despots and dictators.

Democratic senators, congressmen, and ex-presidents are always popping up in countries hostile to the United States - Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Iraq - hobnobbing with foreign despots who hate America.

In a long-standing liberal tradition, foreign despots must be pronounced "repellent" or "despicable" before urging a policy of appeasement toward them.

ABC News's "20/20," unable to round up any intriguing foreign despots of its own, is going later in the evening with Robert Blake, the has-been actor accused of killing his wife.

He lied not to protect the safety of American soldiers, to save the Republic nor to trick a foreign despot in a game of political poker.

Such martial talk about a reviled foreign despot makes for satisfying campaign oratory.

I think we have a foreign despot here in disguise.

'We couldn't let a foreign despot raise a hand to Ankh-Morpork, could we, sir?'