Saddam Quotes

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

— George Stephanopoulos

Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

— Bill Maher

“For every Mother Theresa, there are ten Saddam Husseins.”

— Baron of Cleveland

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

— Jeffrey Archer

US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.

— Joe Biden

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

— Dick Cheney

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.

— Howard Dean

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

— Brent Scowcroft

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

— Charles Kennedy

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

— Ari Fleischer

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

— Sergei Lavrov

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

— Fareed Zakaria

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

— Louis Farrakhan

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

— Joe Lieberman

There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.

— Colin Powell

If you don't believe...Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

— John F. Kerry

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a…

— John Sununu

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot,…

— Madeleine Albright

I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only…

— Michael Scheuer

Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because…

— Craig Kilborn

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the…

— Bob Graham

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation…

— Condoleezza Rice

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the…

— Carl Levin

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in…

— Raghad Hussein

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of…

— Michael Ignatieff

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of…

— John F. Kerry

The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,…

— Saddam Hussein

The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political…

— Robert Fisk

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak…

— Richard Engel

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

— Arundhati Roy

It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake…

— Robert Fisk

I think there's no question that, even though we may not have the evidence as Richard (Perle) says, that there have been…

— Wesley Clark

We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by…

— Saddam Hussein

Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not…

— George Will

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we…

— Dick Cheney

I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough…

— Richard Armitage

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be…

— Paul Wolfowitz

“In all these operations Iraq made extensive use of chemical weapons which, apart from Saddam’s determination to get the Iranians off Iraqi…

— Efraim Karsh