Bin Laden Quotes - Page 10

• People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

  Ron Reagan

  Believe, Eye, People

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• The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

  Dennis Hastert

  Organization, Drug, Liberty

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• Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Evil, Heaven

  "The Atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Sexy, Offensive, Osama Bin Laden

  "Gilbert Gottfried revels in being ‘unsexiest’" by Paige Newman, www.today.com. April 18, 2006.

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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• As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Lying, Ocean, Alive

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• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  Nancy Grace

  Money, Japan, Iraq

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• I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Joy, Understanding

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

  Cory Doctorow

  War, Winning, Surveillance

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• We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.

  George W. Bush

  Alive, Matter

  "Bin Laden Video Angers New Yorkers". news.bbc.co.uk. December 14, 2001.

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• ...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Fighting

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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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• Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix.

  Radley Balko

  Country, Team, Men

  "Osama Won". reason.com. May 2, 2011.

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• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  William Blum

  Leader, Mafia, Empires

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• The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, House, Osama Bin Laden

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• Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Military, Iraq, Leader

  "Dem: Bush intentionally lost bin Laden" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 30, 2009.

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• One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.

  Michael Morell

  Isis, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.politico.com

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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

  John McCain

  Winning, Thinking, Want

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• Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

  John McCain

  Osama Bin Laden, Humans, Human Intelligence

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• Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our government documents, a "fact" that has never, ever been supported to my knowledge. So, that's the second factor.

  Ted Gup

  Government, Views, Facts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Wish, Looks, Lasts

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