Als Quotes - Page 19

• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Tools, Revolution, Magnitude

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• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Boys, Done

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• I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Want, Today

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• Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Watches, World, Proud

  "Inside Al Jazeera". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 25, 2004.

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Texas, Atlanta

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• Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Successful, Views

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• Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

  Ron Suskind

  Country, Independent, Cells

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• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

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• Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.

  Robert Lacey

  Father, Son, Moon

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• We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Egypt, President

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

  Jeb Bush

  Isis, Iraq, President

  Primetime Republican Debate, time.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Al Gore completely lied about climate change in an effort to make a lot of money.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Effort, Climate, Lied

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Decision

  "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights" by John Yoo, www.wsj.com. May 26, 2004.

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• Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

  John Yoo

  Mean, Fighting, Important

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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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• Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

  David Ignatius

  Thinking, Iran, Allies

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Ideas, Cabo, Fins

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• Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb (House of War). All countries, where Islam is not the ruling authority, are Dar al Harb. It is the duty of the Muslims to wage Jihad in Dar al Harb, overthrow the governments and force people into submission. This is the only kind of peace that Islam recognizes.

  Ali Sina

  Country, War, Government

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.

  Arthur Dong

  Media, Iraq, Groups

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Iraq, Jail

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• In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

  Eric Bolling

  Party, Tree, Tea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Taken, Sick, Atheism

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