Absurdity Quote by Bob Hawke

Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does…

— Robert Fisk

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

— Miroslav Volf

Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in…

— Robert Fisk

“on December 7, 2001, Osama announced that he was leaving. “He deserted us,” remembers Al-Hubayshi bitterly. “After five weeks his people came round telling…

— Robert Lacey

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin…

— Barney Frank

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,

— Paul Wolfowitz

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New…

— James Buchan

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid…

— Harry Belafonte

Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk…

— Robert Fisk

“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible…

— Christopher Hitchens

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes.…

— Peter Bergen