She also poured scorn on Tony Blair for turning the government into a personality cult.
How does it avoid the trap of the personality cult, bane of most parties?
If anyone was well positioned to launch a political personality cult it was Mr. Mandela.
The movement is, to a great extent, the personality cult of a dead man.
Mr Berdymukhamedov chipped off just enough from Niyazov's personality cult to make some space for himself.
Religious activism probably counts for little beside the personality cult now surrounding Turkmenistan's President Saparmurad Niazov.
Hardest for an outsider to grasp is that the Kim personality cult flows from powerful myths about race and history.
Last month, Mr Putin spoke out publicly against what many here see as a Soviet-style personality cult building up around him.
Or you need to join the personality cult that puts its faith in Mr Son's ability to spot several more Yahoos.
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Along with the mounting personality cult is a change of language.
The self-styled Father of all Turkmens has constructed a personality cult around himself harking back to the Soviet period and tolerates no opposition to his rule.
The Kremlin has been keen to avoid a big fuss, acutely aware that there has already been enough talk as it is of a Putin personality cult.
The feeble struggle of this authoritarian post-Soviet leader, who has ruled with an iron hand since 1989, against becoming the centre of a personality cult provides a diverting spectacle.
In the provinces, there are isolated examples of a personality cult that has gone way over the top, such as the setting up of shrines in places the president has visited.
Nor does Beck treat his company as a personality cult, a fact he signaled by hiring Betsy Morgan, former CEO of the left-leaning Huffington Post, to run his news site, The Blaze.
But sooner or later, Mr Kim will go, and that will mark a moment of immense tension in a country where his personality cult is about the only thing the people have left.
In Azerbaijan there is a growing personality cult surrounding the former leader, who is regarded as a father of the nation, which became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from neighbouring Georgia.
Until recently, the parallel was most evident in both men's strong penchant for the personality cult although not even Stalin thought of building a gold statue of himself that rotates with the sun, as Mr Niyazov has in his capital, Ashgabat.
Their leader, Massoud Rajavi, has strange ideas about the cult of personality (his own).
Detractors regard this cult of personality as a poor surrogate for careful planning and execution.
His 2008 campaign of Hope and Change was vacuous in content, but big on cult of personality.
But the cult of personality and connecting with everyday voters will only carry a candidate so far.
It is a first glimpse of the extraordinary cult of personality built around Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il.
As the cult of personality grew, investors seemed so captivated by Mr Silverman's reputation that they forgot his record.
As I get a lay of the land in the air, and the territory is familiar: A cult of personality.
Steve Jobs was a private person, but his insistence on privacy only fueled the cult of personality that surrounded him.
The growing American infatuation with Barack Obama had to pop eventually and this week, the cult of personality finally got punctured.
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