Charles Kennedy Quotes

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

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.

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

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

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.

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

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

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

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

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

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

It is doubtful that President Mubarak or the Saudi Royal family will allow elections that might sweep them from office.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

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.

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

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

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.