I 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.
--
Summer 1979, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari RautsiSaddam Hussein
» Saddam Hussein - all quotes »
Hussein, Saddam
Husserl, Edmund
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z