Laden Quotes

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People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don`t even know you. All of a sudden, you`re, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I`m going through. Interview with Blender Magazine, September 2003.

- R. Kelly

Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans. It would have been better if the UN had been together. Now it`s become very bloody with Iraq, it`s very difficult. If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn`t just want to sit there and say thank you. I`d be angry like I think anyone would be, so I could see America and Britain being angry. To look for (Osama Bin Laden) seemed reasonable to go against terrorism, but the war has become very difficult.

- Paul McCartney

He went for the head. Kill the king, and your enemy folds. Alexander would have gone after Osama bin Laden. I`m sorry, but Kerry was right.

- Oliver Stone

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

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

We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States. Clinton lied about a blow job, and got impeached by the media and Congress. Bush got us into the Iraq war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al- Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment. Unfortunately, the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been. It talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear. In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do. This is exactly what Orwell was talking about when he spoke of thought crimes.

- Tim Robbins

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you`re behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don`t really perform because you can`t. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

- Stevie Nicks

That`s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying (to kill Osama Bin Laden). They had eight months (before September 11th) to try; they did not try.

- Bill Clinton

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

- Bill Nelson

We do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.

- Donald Rumsfeld

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

It was so heavily fact-laden that it is going to be very difficult or impossible to get a full court to reverse the decision,

- Paul McKenna

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

- John McCain

Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That`s a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition.

- Jack Thompson

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

- Tom Allen

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

Bin Laden himself feels more secure in coming out of his cave and asserting to the world that he`s alive and still relevant.

- Steve Emerson

Because the air is so humid, you can`t really get rid of water, ... The body is trying to sweat and lose water, but it`s not very efficient. The air around you is already laden with water molecules.

- David Ross

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

- Barbara Olson

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

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.

- Michael Scheuer

Bin Laden has consistently shown himself to be immune to outside pressure. When he wants to do something, he does it on his own schedule.`

- Michael Scheuer

I`m much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

- Michael Scheuer

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

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn`t like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

- Michael Scheuer

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

- Michael Scheuer

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden`s a great man in the sense that he`s influenced the course of history.

- Michael Scheuer

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

- Michael Scheuer

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he`s not an irrational man. He`s a very worthy enemy. He`s an enemy to worry about.

- Michael Scheuer

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

- Alain de Vogue

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.

- Alaina Walker

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what`s supposed to come next.

- Alaina Walker

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.

- Alan Lucas

But to the slave mother New Year`s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

- Alexander Jablokov

If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward.

- Alexandre Oliveira

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

- Alexandre Oliveira

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

- Ali Marchant

The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in.

- Alice Stone Blackwell

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.

- Alice Stone Blackwell

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

- Allan Kline

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

- Amy Ernest

I don`t know what happens if they get bin Laden. I`m much more interested in what happens if they don`t get bin Laden.

- Andale Gross

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

- Andale Gross

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

- Andrew Duff

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.

- Ann Hurley

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that`s already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

- Arthur Gordon

If Osama bin Laden is still Public Enemy No. 1, we have a challenge to find him among Pashto-speaking people whose nuances we`re poorly prepared to interpret.

- Barb Graff

I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.

- Bryan Hilferty

We have a variety of intelligence and we`re sure we`re going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We`ve learned lessons from Iraq and we`re getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.

- Bryan Hilferty