To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's…

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the…

— Rory Stewart

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 is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

— Barton Gellman

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or…

— John Sununu

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen…

— Noam Chomsky

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

— Elliott Abrams

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

— Michael Hayden

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

— Eric Greitens

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,…

— Richard Engel

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that…

— John Yoo

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no…

— Dennis C. Blair

Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache…

— Barton Gellman

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr