All Michael Scheuer Quotes
- I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing. Believe
- 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… Activities
- Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' Company
- Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not. Continue
- You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince. Arab
- 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… Al
- A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think… Bomb
- I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let… Activities
- Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary. Bin
- The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected. Christian
- The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with… Bane
- No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is… Abandon
- It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to… American
- Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself. Arabia
- One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's… American
- The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency… Agency
- 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
- We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. Insurgency
- 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… Activities
- The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Found