Academy Quote by Hassan Blasim

Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.

— Zainab Salbi

“Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going…

— Jan Narveson

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their…

— H. R. McMaster

I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it…

— Ingrid Betancourt

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned…

— Wayne Dyer

When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with…

— H. R. McMaster

I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country…

— Arwa Damon

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

— Tony Blair

I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

— Augusto Pinochet

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very…

— Dominic Cooper

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

— Ed Balls