dictator removal Quotes

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong and Eleanor Clift is completely right -- we're just removing a dictator who plans to terrorize a lot of people in the region, but not Americans specifically. Even for someone like me, who doesn't want America to be the world's policeman, the risk of precipitous action against Saddam Hussein doesn't keep me up at night.

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

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.

We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

The more brutal the dictator, the harder to oust.

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.

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

The dictator of Iraq will fully disarm or the United States will lead a coalition and disarm him.

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

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

No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.

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

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