Bin Laden Quotes - Page 9

• This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

  Mitt Romney

  Effort, Overcoming, Pay

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, House, Rich

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• Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Men, Mountain

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• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  Barney Frank

  Government, President, Firsts

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• Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Past, Order, Giving

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• If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

  Alan Dershowitz

  America, Israel, Target

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• Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

  James Buchan

  New York, Inspiration, Islamic

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

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• After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Order, Years, Giving

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Men, Thinking

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• I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Issues, Long

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• There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, Missing, Tragedy

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• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  Gail Collins

  Sports, Team, Long

  "The Power in a Photo". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshoped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.

  Gail Collins

  Cousin, Believe, Thinking

  "The Power in a Photo". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2011.

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• The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

  John Cusack

  People, Cameras, Would Be

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• I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Interrogation Techniques, Information

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

  Rick Santorum

  Issues, Decision, President

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• There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden.

  Noam Chomsky

  Boston, Trials, Body

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.106, City Lights Books

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• When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

  Colin Powell

  Campaigns, World, Terrorism

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• Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Safe Haven

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, United States, Global Warming

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• I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Drinking, Jumping

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• We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

  Harry Belafonte

  War, Moving, Government

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• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Believe, Humble, Knowing

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• Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

  Bill Maher

  Borders, Etch A Sketch, Pakistan

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• I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

  Peter Bergen

  Blood, Leader, Navy

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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