Pat Toomey Quotes

There is no doubt Assad deserves every missile we fire at him, but there's one big problem with air strikes - there is absolutely no proof it has any deterrent effect on Assad. To the contrary, history tells us these strikes will most likely quicken the pace of his assault on his own people.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

There is a terrible price the U. S. Government must pay when it associates itself … intimately with a repressive regime.

Outsiders can do little in Zimbabwe so long as Robert Mugabe remains in power, for Mugabe is prepared to wreck his country in order to preserve his rule over it. The best thing outsiders can do is pressure or bribe him and his immediate circle into leaving.

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets.

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

Kissinger's orchestration of political and military and diplomatic cover for apartheid in South Africa presents us with a morally repulsive record and includes the appalling consequences of the destabilization of Angola

I don’t like genocide, but I would not commit our troops [to stop it.]

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

We seem to have an obligation to protect if a dictator is going to rapidly kill many of his people on CNN. We do not seem to have the same obligation if he will kill his people slowly and not on CNN.

The Syrian people deserve much more than complicit silence, or timid criticism from those who have failed to refer the regime to the International Criminal Court despite acknowledgement if its crimes.

We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.