Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

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 Havel or Mandela.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

There is a very long history of oppression in the Arab world, particularly in the states he mentions: Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as in Sudan and Tunisia. These regimes are not based on democracy and their legitimacy comes from military dictatorships or inherited systems. The basic right of an individual to voice his or her opinion is not granted in any kind of form in the Arab world.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

I do not want to be recorded in history as the man who bequeathed a tyranny.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

I believe the world would have been a lot worse off if Saddam [Hussein] were in power today.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.