Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

The world is pretty messed up.

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Libya is still a mess right now.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

We live in ugly times.