Osama Bin Laden Quotes - Page 6

• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  Gary Oldman

  Years, Spy, Happened

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

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Sexy, Offensive, Carrots

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Michael Moore: Gun Control Necessary, Now" by Nicole Evatt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

  Michelle Malkin

  Children, Kids, Years

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• 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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• What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.

  David Letterman

  Hate, Kids, Wife

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• We've never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming.

  Dick Cheney

  Made, Cases, Evidence

  Interview with Tony Snow, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 29, 2006.

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• For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

  Miroslav Volf

  Conviction, Absurd, Bin Laden

  "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally ‘Better’" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.

  David Letterman

  Wife, Three, Newts

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• Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Years, Wife

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• In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

  Peter Bergen

  Cities, Lasts, Firsts

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

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• In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!

  Mike Moran

  Kissing, People, Royal

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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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• 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, Propaganda, Deputies

  "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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• Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

  Cofer Black

  War, United States, Should

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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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• 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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• As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

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