Bin Laden Quotes

• Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

  Jay Leno

  War, Night, Evil

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• Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Overcoming, World, Causes

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• Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fighting, Israel, People

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2003.

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• Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Alive, Hussein

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• Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Patriotic, Men

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, New York, War

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Usa, Political, President

  "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

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• "The Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State": I was happy that we finally got him. And a lot of my colleagues and friends that I know who sacrificed so much, some of them their lives, you know, finally can rest, knowing that he's dead.But also, at the same time, I kind of was troubled that we are now not fighting an organization anymore. The terrorists, the threat mutated to a message. Bin Laden accomplished something way bigger. He had a message that was spreading around the Muslim world.

  Ali Soufan

  Islamic, Fighting, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• From the standpoint of a Middle Eastern citizen, Americans look like a bully forcing our way of life on the Islamic way of life. The notion of purity is very important in Islam, and a lot of the negative warlike actions taken against us have to do with our physical presence in the Middle East. Osama bin Laden was trying to get the American, or protesting the American military presence in Saudi Arabia. It's not surprising that our strong presence in Iraq has produced a wave of resistance anger, extreme anger in some cases, and a permissive atmosphere that allows these people to go undetected.

  John Updike

  Strong, Military, Taken

  Source: www.today.com

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• You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

  Joe Biden

  Alive, Want, Littles

  "Obama dogged by negatives". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.

  Ali Soufan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.

  John McCain

  Winning, Thinking, Want

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• The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

  Shari Arison

  Trying, World, Way

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• The Taliban has asked Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country.They said they delivered him a note asking him to leave, which is a pretty goodtrick considering they claim they don't even know where he is.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Asking, Osama Bin Laden

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• A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Numbers, Analysts

  "Was There an Alternative?" by Noam Chomsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

  Henry Rollins

  Lost Love, Awful, September

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• There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.

  Jay Leno

  Guy, Dollars, Firsts

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• Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.

  Richard North Patterson

  Country, Blow, Interrogation Techniques

  Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

  Barack Obama

  Caves, Likes, Hell

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.78, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The Mirror interviewed one of Osama bin Laden's sons and said bin Laden has 42 children. That's going to happen when you sleep in a different cave every night.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Sleep, Son

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• So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cutting, Giving, Lessons

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.

  John McCain

  Osama Bin Laden, Hell, Gates

  "Quotes of the week". www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

  Frank Rich

  Stories, Addresses, Speech

  "Frank Rich: The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off" by Frank Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in real terms than at any time since World War II and is slated to go even higher .

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Military, Real

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.

  Len Wiseman

  Team, Special, Use

  Source: collider.com

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