Al Qaeda Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

  Colin Powell

  Ambition, Iraq, Hatred

  "Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iraq, Important, Als

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• Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

  Max Cleland

  Pakistan, Politics, Als

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• It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, America, Airports

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• We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, Running, War

  "Bush: 'All the world can rise to this moment'". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.

  Barack Obama

  Army, Men, Evil

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

  Janet Napolitano

  Immigration, United States, Als

  "Napolitano Says Al Qaeda-Type Terrorists in U.S". www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2009.

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• The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

  Joe Biden

  Change, Jobs, Commitment

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• Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wmd, Iraq, Giving

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• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

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• Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

  Brad Thor

  Als, Opinion, Protection

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• I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Party, Dinner, Als

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• What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

  Thomas Friedman

  Religious, Political, Movement

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

  George W. Bush

  Als, Strikes, Taliban

  "‘How Bush Rules’" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2006.

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• The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

  Adam McKay

  Land, Stopping, Invasion

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Based on the people l've spoken to, I think the impression is: Is America safer from Al Qaeda? Yes. Is America weaker as a nation because we have overspent and over-focused on Al Qaeda? Yes. I think that would be the conclusion that people seem to have come to and that I tend to agree with.

  Richard Engel

  Thinking, America, People

  "Inside Libya: A Conversation with NBC's Richard Engel". Interview with Nurit Zunger, www.gq.com. September 1, 2011.

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• This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq, which there wasn't one at the time we went in. I want to state that Mr. Cheney must be held accountable. He is already ginning up a cause for war against Iran. Now, we have to stand for this Constitution, we have to protect and defend this Constitution.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, War, Lying

  South Carolina Democratic Debate trancscript, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Evil

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion or negotiation when it comes to an ISIS or an Al Qaeda militant. They don’t want anything concrete. And if you want nothing that’s measurable or concrete, there is nothing to talk about. You must be destroyed.

  Reza Aslan

  Isis, Organization, Want

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• The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Hussein

  "Dick Cheney enters the 'No Spin Zone'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2013.

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• It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Training

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• When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.

  Dick Cheney

  Reading, Rights, People

  www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Peaceful, Trying

  Press Conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2006.

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