Bombers Quotes

• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

  Jay Leno

  Suicide, Dollars, Hussein

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, July, Lessons

  "This 7/7 report wasn't good enough" by Pauline Neville-Jones, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Children, Mean, Men

  Speech in House of Commons, 10 Nov. 1932

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• No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

  Hermann Goring

  Names, Enemy, Goering

  Addressing the Luftwaffe in September 1939. "August 1939: The Last Days of Peace" by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171, 1979.

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• A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Suicide, Growing Up, People

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• In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

  Jim Gerlach

  Suicide, Israel, Facts

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• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Suicide, Plight, Terrible

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

  John Mica

  Tsa, Shoes, Diapers

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Fence

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• Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

  Chris Chocola

  Suicide, House, Enemy

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• The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Peace, History, Rooms

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• Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Nuclear, Weapons, Canada

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• On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

  Mitt Romney

  Suicide, Watches, Would Be

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

  Robert Fulghum

  Funny, Military, School

  "Is there a magic money tree? Yes children, there is. But that's the wrong question" by Ellie Mae O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2017.

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• I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

  Rosanne Cash

  Suicide, Reading, People

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• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mean, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

  Simon Hoggart

  Suicide, Atheist, War

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

  Desmond Tutu

  Suicide, Military, Land

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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• Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Volunteer, Soldier

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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