Anthrax Quotes

• Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

  Scott Ian

  Strong, Names, Sick

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• After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

  Steven Hatfill

  Eight, Letters, Matter

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

  Steven Hatfill

  Dedication, United States, Connections

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement". www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

  Darrell Hammond

  Home, Night, Might

  "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

  Steven Hatfill

  Disease, Reincarnation

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Mom, Thinking

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• What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Bombs, Popping

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

  Hans Blix

  United States, Dry, Weapons

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• As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

  Steven Hatfill

  Warfare, Defense, Way

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

  Steven Hatfill

  Shapes, Letters, Way

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

  Steven Hatfill

  Office, Letters, Fields

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Army, Animal

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• CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three.

  David Letterman

  Numbers, Usual, Three

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• And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Names, Pet, Goldfish

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", 2005–2015.

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• Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

  Jay Leno

  Genius, Warning, Next

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• Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  People, Nuclear, Nerves

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

  Richard Preston

  Ebola, Way, Easy

  "The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak". Book by Richard Preston, December 31, 2012.

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• A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Horse, Military

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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• We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons - including VX, sarin, cyclosarin and mustard gas.  His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of biological weapons—including anthrax and botulism toxin, and possibly smallpox.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Toxins, Weapons, Chemicals

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• The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Painful Death, Iraq

  "Blair's statement to MPs on Iraq". www.cnn.com. September 24, 2002.

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• The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

  Richard Armitage

  Iraq, Agents, Metrics

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• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

  Richard Armitage

  Ideas, Iraq, Special

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• I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Brave New World, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Jesus, Media

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