Quote

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.

Saddam Hussein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saddam Hussein
Age: 69 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 28
Died: 2006
Died: December 30
Former President Of Iraq
Military Personnel
Politician
Saddam
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
Hussein
Considered
Regimes
Successive
Particularly
Spheres
Witnessed
Relation
Policies
Crises
Iraq
Grave
Gulf
Areas
Relations
Homeland
Crisis
Area
Arab
Policy
Graves
Sphere
Influence
Iran
Domination

More quotes by Saddam Hussein

Image
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.
Saddam Hussein
Image
There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.
Saddam Hussein
Image
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.
Saddam Hussein
Image
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.
Saddam Hussein
Image
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.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Ramadan makes you closer to God.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.
Saddam Hussein
Image
I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.
Saddam Hussein
Image
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.
Saddam Hussein
Image
If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.
Saddam Hussein
Image
la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet
Saddam Hussein
Image
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
Saddam Hussein
Image
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.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!
Saddam Hussein
Image
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.
Saddam Hussein
Image
I am not guilty, I am innocent.
Saddam Hussein
Image
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam Hussein