Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
‐‐ Ed Balls
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.
‐‐ Mike Pence
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor
Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.
‐‐ Rick Santorum
Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov
Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and killed many of his own people, and was in violation of obligations imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
‐‐ John Chilcot
Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.
‐‐ Curt Weldon
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
‐‐ Paul Bremer
Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan
Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.
‐‐ Phil Donahue
Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.
‐‐ John Branch
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
‐‐ Mary Webb
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
‐‐ Alice Miller
Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.
‐‐ Julie Burchill
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
‐‐ Erica Jong
Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.
‐‐ John Burnside
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
‐‐ Nate Parker
Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.
‐‐ Robert Richardson
Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.
‐‐ Michael Greger
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
‐‐ Mike Pence
Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
‐‐ Matt Salmon
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
‐‐ Rafael Yglesias
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.
‐‐ Richard Leakey
Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!
‐‐ Terry Wogan
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
‐‐ Bono
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
‐‐ Russell Smith
Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!
‐‐ Jane Green
Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
‐‐ Carolyn Chute
Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed
Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.
‐‐ Ray Comfort
Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.
‐‐ Doreen Cronin
Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny
Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.
‐‐ Ali Hewson
Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.
‐‐ John Krasinski
Sadly, I've never met Princess Kate.
‐‐ Lily James
Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.
‐‐ Glenn Tipton
Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.
‐‐ Tim Wise
Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.
‐‐ Mila Kunis
Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
‐‐ James Lovelock
Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk