There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

In my head, thought, I would love to do an interview where it's just sort of de-constructed - the talking points of Iraq -…

— Jon Stewart

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been…

— Condoleezza Rice

There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

— Barack Obama

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for…

— John Howard

For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands…

— Victor Davis Hanson

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

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

— John McCain

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

— Peter DeFazio

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

— Mike Pence

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

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

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

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

— Bill Bailey