Adam Schiff Quotes

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

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

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

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

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel.

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

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

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

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

I have no doubt that our military would decisively defeat Iraq’s forces and remove Saddam. But like the proverbial dog chasing the car down the road, we must consider what we would do after we caught it. I am especially worried about the extreme difficulty of occupying Iraq with its history of autocratic rule, its balkanized ethnic tensions, and its isolated economic system. Our regime might be rejected by the Iraqi people, leading to civil unrest and even anarchy.

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

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

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

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

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

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