Bin Laden Quotes - Page 7

• I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.

  Jean Carnahan

  White, Numbers, House

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• We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Osama Bin Laden, Certain

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• And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

  George W. Bush

  Osama Bin Laden, Said, Concerned

  Press Conference by the President, The James S. Brady Briefing Room, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 13, 2002.

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• Of course we're after Iraq.. eh.. Saddam Hussein.. I mean bin Laden.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Hussein

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• Uhh Gosh, I.. don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Kind, Osama Bin Laden

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• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

  John McCain

  Debate, Torture

  "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" by John McCain, www.washingtonpost.com. May 11, 2011.

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• As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, America, Priorities

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• We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Cells, President, Killing

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Michael Scheuer

  Believe, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Iraq, White, House

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• How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Two, America

  2003 In Time, 27 Jan.

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• Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

  Vladimir Putin

  White, Giving, House

  "Putin rejects 'child-killer talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. September 7, 2004.

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• Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

  Argus Hamilton

  Kings, Fall, Names

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• When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

  Hosni Mubarak

  War, Iraq, Horrible

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• Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

  Michael Scheuer

  Respect, Numbers, Unnecessary

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

  Bruce Sterling

  Success, Jobs, People

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Safety, Community, Special

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• I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Office, Priorities

  "Transcript of interview with CIA director Panetta". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2011.

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  Fred Barnes

  Strong, People, Decision

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• Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.

  Geoff Davis

  Winning, Osama Bin Laden, Propaganda

  "House Republicans Respond to Murtha". Geoff Davis' remarks during news conference by House Republicans at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2005.

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Relief, Capture, Feels

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

  Richard Armitage

  Opportunity, Thinking, Twists

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