I can tell you squat about Islam. I don’t know anything…

The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region,…

— Bashar al-Assad

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to…

— Frank Miller

Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.

— Eric Greitens

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

— Peter DeFazio

“Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn’t stand a chance.”

— Paul Rudnick

(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve…

— Jeremiah Wright

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

— Bill Bailey

The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it…

— Condoleezza Rice

Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into…

— Michael Scheuer

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden…

— Peter Bergen

I was on the front lines in the Cold War, and I was on the front lines in the fight against Al Qaeda.

— Gina Haspel

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,…

— Rick Perry

This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing…

— Bashar al-Assad

There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

— Mike Pence