Marco Rubio Quotes

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

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

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

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

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

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

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

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?

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

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

If anything, what happened in Iraq after the fall of Saddam set back prospects for democratic reform in the region, as many came to associate political change with chaos.

I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

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

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

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

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Saddam Hussein is no more terrible than Bush. He’s no more terrible than Bush’s father. No more terrible than Clinton.