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• In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Government, Self, Principles

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.433, Nation Books

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• As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

  Jane Harman

  Believe, Nsa, House

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• The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this.

  Tim Allen

  Successful, Phones, Oysters

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• Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Iraq, Problem

  "A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq". Book by Christopher Hitchens (published in the United Kingdom as "Regime Change"), 2003.

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• There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Al Qaeda, Mccain

  "Tucker". "The Ed Show", www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

  Mark Hopkins

  Integrity, Character, Men

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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• The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me - we have to do something about saving the polar bears." Never mind his carbon footprint - have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.

  Ann Coulter

  Carbon Footprint, Mind, Want

  "The coming ass age". townhall.com. March 21, 2007.

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Average, Talking

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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• There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Majority, Culture, Movement

  "A Global Culture to Fight Extremism". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  William Blum

  Leader, Mafia, Empires

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• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Atheist, Order

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• Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

  Ted Nugent

  President, Would Be, Racist

  "Here Are 13 Other Repugnant Comments Ted Nugent Should Apologize For" by Eric Hananoki, Timothy Johnson, www.mediamatters.org. February 21, 2014.

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• [Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.

  George W. Bush

  Country, America, Hussein

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• Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler’s plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore’s enemy, the U.N.’s enemy: global warming.

  Glenn Beck

  Voice, Goal, Silence

  "Debating Health Care and Rage on the Airwaves". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

  Lawrence Bender

  Ideas, Saws, Firsts

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• The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Hands, People, Bills

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• But Al Jazeera America represents something more than news that isn’t profit or ratings driven — they represent foreign investment in a country where the two-party system outsourced your jobs. They represent facts over opinion and they represent our cultures coming together just a little more, whether you bigots like it or not.

  John Fugelsang

  Country, Jobs, Party

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Aug 06, 2013

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• The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Successful, Effort, Greek

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Tolerance, Black, Levels

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• Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

  Lawrence Bender

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

  Desi Arnaz

  Entertainers

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• The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

  Freeman Dyson

  Global Warming, Opportunist, Responsible

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Flames, America

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