Saddam Quotes

365 Saddam quotes by 180 unique authors

It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself… — Paul Wolfowitz
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. — Howard Gardner
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they… — Les Aspin
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is… — Conan O'Brien
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. — Janine di Giovanni
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself… — Rick Atkinson
I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him. — Rudy Giuliani
Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make… — Mohamed ElBaradei
America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. — Henry Rollins
Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces. — Charles B. Rangel
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims,… — Richard Dawkins
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of… — Richard Dawkins
The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half… — Farnaz Fassihi
Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a… — Rory Stewart
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways… — Noah Feldman
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and -… — Noam Chomsky
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite… — Richard Engel
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result… — Richard Engel
I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to… — George Galloway
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. — George Galloway
Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States… — John Shimkus
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran. — Gary Johnson
In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but… — Arthur L. Herman
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act.… — Arthur L. Herman
To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country. — Ari Fleischer

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