Bombing Quotes · Page 4

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

— Walter Lippmann

Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

[John] Bolton is so far out there, he's advocating bombing everyone in the world.

— Rand Paul

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

— Ernst Zundel

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left…

— Simon Sinek

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

— George C. Wallace

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try…

— Nicholson Baker

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people…

— J. G. Ballard

I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't…

— William T. Vollmann

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and…

— Ivan Illich

My view is that we shouldn't be supplying the Saudis with arms while they're bombing civilians in Yemen and, by the way,…

— Ro Khanna

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant…

— Michelle Malkin

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say…

— Ann Coulter

On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is…

— Noam Chomsky

What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of…

— Keith Olbermann

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and…

— Tony Benn

The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have…

— George Friedman

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different…

— George Galloway

Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and…

— Mehdi Hasan

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,…

— James Ellroy

Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or…

— Andre Vltchek

The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously…

— Edward Said

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

— Duncan Hunter

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

— Jimmy Carter

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

— Adam Yauch

“Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing”

— Steve Martin

The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off…

— Jay Leno

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

— Christopher Hitchens

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.

— Fred Armisen

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

— Howard Zinn

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

— H. R. McMaster

So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed…

— Michael Ondaatje

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and…

— George W. Bush

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells.…

— Sidney Blumenthal