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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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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 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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• Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

  Star Jones

  Honesty, Journey, Cake

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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

  Strikes, Al Qaeda, Taliban

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

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• Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Way, Abstaining, Whatever Happens

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• I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.

  George W. Bush

  Done, Al Qaeda, Bombing

  News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2006.

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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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• I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

  Robert Stack

  Lucky, Arms, Capone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

  Craig Ferguson

  Giving, People, Upset

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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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• 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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• No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

  Edmund Spenser

  Bud, Might

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.109

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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, Should

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• It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

  Robert Greenwald

  Politics, Months, Afghanistan

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• They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

  Argus Hamilton

  Taken, White, House

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• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Change, Animal, Order

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

  Tipper Gore

  Government, Ideas, Lenses

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

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• His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Training, Levels

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in Denver, Colorado, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 2, 2002.

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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, Testimony

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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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• Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

  Rich Lowry

  Presidential, Different, Three

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• There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Links

  "Blair certain of Iraq's al-Qaida links". www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.

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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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