George H. W. Bush Quotes

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

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.

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

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

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

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

If I saw Greeley, I would tell him that when I wanted the advice of a political editor in selecting generals I would call on him.

He [Aneurin Bevan] will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

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

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that's our trade. We do what's necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

As Bush said, after detailing some of Saddam Hussein's charming practices: “If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning.” It's not as if anyone is worried that we're making a horrible miscalculation and could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.

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

I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'