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 HusseinAfter they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them
Saddam HusseinWe are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
Saddam HusseinI know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.
Saddam Hussein