Qaeda Quotes
171 Qaeda quotes by 112 unique authors
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I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose…
— Jack Keane
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Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night,…
— Jack Keane
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Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in…
— Jack Keane
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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 of…
— Barton Gellman
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Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
— Barton Gellman
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
— Barton Gellman
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers…
— Barton Gellman
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Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.
— Richard Engel
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we…
— Gary Johnson
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You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and…
— Bill Nelson
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There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
— Robin Cook
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We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.
— Aslan Maskhadov
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They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
— Douglas J. Feith
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We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost…
— Ed Markey
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All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
— Peter Schuyler
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That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have…
— John Yoo
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The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees…
— John Yoo
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Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and…
— Jo Bonner
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This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to…
— John Sununu
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In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those…
— Bob Graham
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But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures…
— Jane Mayer
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And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in…
— Lawrence Eagleburger
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Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.
— Tom Lantos
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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his…
— Cofer Black
Who Wrote These Qaeda Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 171 Qaeda Quotes, led by these top contributors: