Colin Powell Quotes

Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

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 with Saddam in prison not in power.

He [Rafael Trujillo] had his torture chambers. He had his political assassinations. But he kept law and order, cleaned the place up, made it sanitary, built public works, and he didn’t bother the United States. So that was fine with us.

The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power.

Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.

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

In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

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

A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and killed many of his own people, and was in violation of obligations imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

Leaders cling to power in a socialist state like Venezuela by buying votes and manipulating elections.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.