Bin Laden Quotes - Page 7

• [on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Alive, Osama Bin Laden, Wells

  U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, October 7, 2002.

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• Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

  Peter Bergen

  Successful, Administration, Economics

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• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

  John McCain

  Debate, Torture

  "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" by John McCain, www.washingtonpost.com. May 11, 2011.

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• As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, America, Priorities

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• Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

  Geoffrey Canada

  America, Osama Bin Laden, Fine

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• I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Lying, Fall, Government

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• To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

  Daniel Pipes

  Fashion, War, Feet

  "Bin Laden Is a Fundamentalist". National Review Online, October 22, 2001.

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• Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?

  Darryl Worley

  Worry, Towers, Politics

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• I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

  Richard Armitage

  Opportunity, Thinking, Twists

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Relief, Capture, Feels

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

  John Yoo

  Fighting, Iraq, Abuse

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• Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

  Peter Bergen

  Indulge In, Keys, Leader

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

  Peter Bergen

  Thinking, Long, Groups

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

  Peter Bergen

  Dad, Men, Years

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

  Peter Bergen

  Cities, Lasts, Firsts

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.

  Jean Carnahan

  White, Numbers, House

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• We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Osama Bin Laden, Certain

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• And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

  George W. Bush

  Osama Bin Laden, Said, Concerned

  Press Conference by the President, The James S. Brady Briefing Room, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 13, 2002.

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• Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Hussein

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• Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Kind, Osama Bin Laden

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• Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.

  Geoff Davis

  Winning, Osama Bin Laden, Propaganda

  "House Republicans Respond to Murtha". Geoff Davis' remarks during news conference by House Republicans at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2005.

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• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  Fred Barnes

  Strong, People, Decision

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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