American Quote by Peter Bergen

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

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…

— Bill Nelson

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

— David Letterman

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into…

— Cofer Black

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

— Robert Fisk

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

— John McCain

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

Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside…

— Richard North Patterson

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But…

— Dick Cheney

I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How…

— Alex D. Linz

What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?

— Mike D

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew…

— Richard Ben-Veniste