A Quote by Rodney Erickson

Joe Paterno was a dictator.

Rodney Erickson

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Dictator Joe

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Rodney Erickson
Born: 1946

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

Jim Norton

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

Joe Budden

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

Jay Paterno

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

James Brown

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

Jim Boeheim

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Joe Posnanski

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

Pete Rose

I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.

Bobby Knight

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Leslie Fiedler

Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

Christine Pelosi

I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in the world who has resigned while still quite healthy.

Mahathir Mohamad

The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown.

Rza

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.

Lou Holtz

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

George Bernard Shaw

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.