Saddam Hussein Quotes

Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

In short, we want an independent, liberated and socialist Iraq. Furthermore, we want Iraq to play a vanguard role in the area, particularly in the Arab homeland. We want Iraq to play a pioneering role in consolidating the anti-imperialist line of policy on the international level.

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants ... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland

Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.

You will triumph, O Iraqis, and with you the sons of your Arab nation

Long live jihad and long live Palestine.

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us ... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.

Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners ... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].

Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor ... Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with ... dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

I just didn't believe Bush.

The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence.

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means under successive regimes in Iran) is the decisive battle for the Arabs. What we have said, and still say, is that the fight against Zionism is the main decisive battle for the Arabs. This is a great objective reality, which cannot be denied or underestimated except by someone who would not only harm the Arab nation and its main causes, but would also overlook the main danger.

Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation ... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.

The victory of the Revolution's will and yours over the stooge pocket is regarded as a victory for the world revolution everywhere, just as the victory of the revolutionaries in South East Asia was a victory of revolutionaries everywhere.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him ...

The United States must get a taste of its own poison ...

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

We pledge to you in our name ... that we will resist the invaders.

La ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu ... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet

Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again

During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

Ramadan makes you closer to God.