Bad Quote by Michael Scheuer

Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.

— Peter Bergen

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming,…

— Peter Bergen

Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's…

— Alexander Siddig

He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in…

— Michael Scheuer

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational…

— Eric Holder

Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

— Peter Bergen

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who…

— Jane Addams

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

“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or…

— Christopher Hitchens

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

— Harry Belafonte

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

— Hugo Chavez